Planes overhead in BR6
Bromley, London. 1,066 of its 1,086 postcodes measured, the ones in Bromley (49 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 BR6. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 11
a day
Of its 1,066 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 7
- under 10
- 1,059
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 13
a day
Of its 1,066 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 120
- under 10
- 946
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 22
a day
Of its 1,066 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 452
- under 10
- 614
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BR6 0222 postcodes | 222 under 10 | 64 at 10 to 99 | 222 at 10 to 99 |
| BR6 6141 postcodes | 141 under 10 | 141 under 10 | 141 under 10 |
| BR6 7253 postcodes | 7 at 10 to 99 | 253 under 10 | 5 at 10 to 99 |
| BR6 8174 postcodes | 174 under 10 | 56 at 10 to 99 | 150 at 10 to 99 |
| BR6 9276 postcodes | 276 under 10 | 276 under 10 | 75 at 10 to 99 |
Also counted here: Luton, at most 1 a day over any of its postcodes.
Over 447 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 BR6
BR5 BR2 BR7 DA14 BR4 BR1 DA15 SE9
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.