Planes overhead in B66
Sandwell and Birmingham, West Midlands. All 540 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 B66. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 8
a day
Of its 540 postcodes:
- under 10
- 540
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 16
a day
Of its 540 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 496
- under 10
- 44
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 22
a day
Of its 540 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 540
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B66 1104 postcodes | 104 under 10 | 104 at 10 to 99 | 104 at 10 to 99 |
| B66 2110 postcodes | 110 under 10 | 110 at 10 to 99 | 110 at 10 to 99 |
| B66 3164 postcodes | 164 under 10 | 164 at 10 to 99 | 164 at 10 to 99 |
| B66 4162 postcodes | 162 under 10 | 118 at 10 to 99 | 162 at 10 to 99 |
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 B66
B67 B21 B18 B16 B68 B17 B1 B20
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.