Planes overhead in BR2
Bromley, London. All 982 of its postcodes measured (23 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
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From Heathrow
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Heathrow flies, and that decides how many pass over BR2. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 144
a day
Of its 982 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 336
- 10 to 99
- 582
- under 10
- 64
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 102
a day
Of its 982 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 15
- 10 to 99
- 856
- under 10
- 111
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 58
a day
Of its 982 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 846
- under 10
- 136
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 west56% of days | Both ways15% of days | Flying east29% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| BR2 0273 postcodes | 273 at 100+ | 15 at 100+ | 273 at 10 to 99 |
| BR2 687 postcodes | 25 at 10 to 99 | 87 under 10 | 87 under 10 |
| BR2 7167 postcodes | 167 at 10 to 99 | 165 at 10 to 99 | 142 at 10 to 99 |
| BR2 8198 postcodes | 196 at 10 to 99 | 176 at 10 to 99 | 174 at 10 to 99 |
| BR2 9257 postcodes | 63 at 100+ | 257 at 10 to 99 | 257 at 10 to 99 |
Also counted here: Luton, at most 1 a day over any of its postcodes.
Over 33 of its postcodes, other flying passes too, from airfields, helicopters and airports we cannot check against official counts, so few planes from the airports we count does not mean a quiet sky there.
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 BR2
BR4 BR1 BR3 BR7 BR6 BR5 SE6 SE20
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Heathrow. 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.