Planes overhead in B90
Solihull, West Midlands. 1,015 of its 1,052 postcodes measured, the ones in Solihull (32 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 B90. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 21
a day
Of its 1,015 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 850
- under 10
- 165
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 12
a day
Of its 1,015 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 400
- under 10
- 615
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 7
a day
Of its 1,015 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,015
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B90 1243 postcodes | 225 at 10 to 99 | 83 at 10 to 99 | 243 under 10 |
| B90 2202 postcodes | 202 at 10 to 99 | 162 at 10 to 99 | 202 under 10 |
| B90 3211 postcodes | 109 at 10 to 99 | 211 under 10 | 211 under 10 |
| B90 4305 postcodes | 260 at 10 to 99 | 102 at 10 to 99 | 305 under 10 |
| B90 854 postcodes | 54 at 10 to 99 | 53 at 10 to 99 | 54 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 B90
B91 B28 B14 B92 B93 B13 B11 B26
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.