Planes overhead in B30
Birmingham, West Midlands. All 580 of its postcodes measured (28 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Birmingham
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Birmingham flies, and that decides how many pass over B30. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 5
a day
Of its 580 postcodes:
- under 10
- 580
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 9
a day
Of its 580 postcodes:
- under 10
- 580
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 11
a day
Of its 580 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 18
- under 10
- 562
Each sector's bar splits its postcodes by how many planes pass over them a day; the figure above it counts those in the busiest band the sector reaches. The list above gives the whole district's counts.
| Sector | Flying west38% of days | Both ways24% of days | Flying east38% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| B30 1208 postcodes | 208 under 10 | 208 under 10 | 208 under 10 |
| B30 2205 postcodes | 205 under 10 | 205 under 10 | 18 at 10 to 99 |
| B30 3167 postcodes | 167 under 10 | 167 under 10 | 167 under 10 |
What counts as overhead
Overhead means more than halfway up the sky (48.5 degrees or more) and below 7,000 ft, the CAA's definition of an overflight (CAP 1498). A day counts as one way when 80% of its flights used that way. PO boxes and other postcodes for organisations that receive a lot of post are left out: they sit at a delivery office or a business, not at homes.
Near B30
B29 B14 B13 B17 B15 B12 B5 B28
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Birmingham. Flight tracks: adsb.lol (ODbL 1.0); Weather at each airport: Iowa Environmental Mesonet; Ground heights: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right; Postcode positions: ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (OGL). Licence: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.