Planes overhead in B70
Sandwell, West Midlands. All 783 of its postcodes measured (51 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 B70. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 783 postcodes:
- under 10
- 783
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 16
a day
Of its 783 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 747
- under 10
- 36
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 25
a day
Of its 783 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 783
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B70 0209 postcodes | 209 under 10 | 199 at 10 to 99 | 209 at 10 to 99 |
| B70 6152 postcodes | 152 under 10 | 152 at 10 to 99 | 152 at 10 to 99 |
| B70 7121 postcodes | 121 under 10 | 119 at 10 to 99 | 121 at 10 to 99 |
| B70 8118 postcodes | 118 under 10 | 118 at 10 to 99 | 118 at 10 to 99 |
| B70 9183 postcodes | 183 under 10 | 159 at 10 to 99 | 183 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 B70
B71 B69 DY4 B66 B67 WS10 B21 B68
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.