Planes overhead in CV13
Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicester. All 368 of its postcodes measured (4 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From East Midlands
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way East Midlands flies, and that decides how many pass over CV13. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 8
a day
Of its 368 postcodes:
- under 10
- 368
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 14
a day
Of its 368 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 8
- under 10
- 360
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Up to 21
a day
Of its 368 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 134
- under 10
- 234
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 west58% of days | Both ways20% of days | Flying east22% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV13 0203 postcodes | 203 under 10 | 8 at 10 to 99 | 132 at 10 to 99 |
| CV13 6165 postcodes | 165 under 10 | 165 under 10 | 2 at 10 to 99 |
8 of its postcodes have a position ONS estimates, so their figures may be for a spot a few hundred metres away.
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 CV13
LE9 LE67 LE6 DE12 LE65 LE2 LE12 LE8
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for East Midlands. 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.