Planes overhead in B44
Birmingham, West Midlands. All 627 of its postcodes measured (11 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 B44. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 3
a day
Of its 627 postcodes:
- under 10
- 627
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 70
a day
Of its 627 postcodes:
- on an edge
- 8
- under 10
- 619
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 120
a day
Of its 627 postcodes:
- on an edge
- 10
- under 10
- 617
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B44 0237 postcodes | 237 under 10 | 8 on an edge | 10 on an edge |
| B44 8195 postcodes | 195 under 10 | 195 under 10 | 195 under 10 |
| B44 9195 postcodes | 195 under 10 | 195 under 10 | 195 under 10 |
On an edge: the postcode is on the edge of a flight path, where a few metres decide whether a plane counts as overhead, and the fewest and the most within 100 m of it fall in different bands.
1 of its postcodes have a position ONS estimates, so their figures may be for a spot a few hundred metres away.
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 B44
B23 B73 B20 B74 B24 WS5 B19 B21
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.