Planes overhead in BR7
Bromley and Greenwich, London. All 441 of its postcodes measured (19 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 BR7. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 72
a day
Of its 441 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 414
- under 10
- 27
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 53
a day
Of its 441 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 441
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 43
a day
Of its 441 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 441
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BR7 5210 postcodes | 210 at 10 to 99 | 210 at 10 to 99 | 210 at 10 to 99 |
| BR7 6231 postcodes | 204 at 10 to 99 | 231 at 10 to 99 | 231 at 10 to 99 |
From London City
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way London City flies, and that decides how many pass over BR7. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Under 1
a day, at all 441 of its postcodes
On a day it flies both ways, 18% of days
Up to 13
a day
Of its 441 postcodes:
- on an edge
- 1
- under 10
- 440
On a day it flies east, 35% of days
Up to 33
a day
Of its 441 postcodes:
- on an edge
- 1
- under 10
- 440
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 west47% of days | Both ways18% of days | Flying east35% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| BR7 5210 postcodes | 210 under 10 | 210 under 10 | 210 under 10 |
| BR7 6231 postcodes | 231 under 10 | 1 on an edge | 1 on an edge |
On an edge: the postcode is on the edge of a flight path, where a few metres decide whether a plane counts as overhead, and the fewest and the most within 100 m of it fall in different bands.
Over 13 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 BR7
BR1 DA14 SE9 BR5 DA15 BR2 SE12 BR6
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Heathrow and London City. 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.