Planes overhead in B68
Sandwell, West Midlands. All 586 of its postcodes measured (2 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 B68. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 586 postcodes:
- under 10
- 586
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 10
a day
Of its 586 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 1
- under 10
- 585
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 16
a day
Of its 586 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 225
- under 10
- 361
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B68 0184 postcodes | 184 under 10 | 184 under 10 | 184 under 10 |
| B68 8190 postcodes | 190 under 10 | 1 at 10 to 99 | 105 at 10 to 99 |
| B68 9212 postcodes | 212 under 10 | 212 under 10 | 120 at 10 to 99 |
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 B68
B67 B66 B69 B17 B16 B70 B21 B18
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.