Planes overhead in CV5
Coventry and Solihull, West Midlands. All 902 of its postcodes measured (16 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 CV5. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 38% of days
Up to 3
a day
Of its 902 postcodes:
- under 10
- 902
On a day it flies both ways, 24% of days
Up to 17
a day
Of its 902 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 69
- under 10
- 833
On a day it flies east, 38% of days
Up to 32
a day
Of its 902 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 90
- under 10
- 812
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV5 6243 postcodes | 243 under 10 | 243 under 10 | 243 under 10 |
| CV5 7221 postcodes | 221 under 10 | 22 at 10 to 99 | 42 at 10 to 99 |
| CV5 8191 postcodes | 191 under 10 | 191 under 10 | 191 under 10 |
| CV5 9247 postcodes | 247 under 10 | 47 at 10 to 99 | 48 at 10 to 99 |
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 CV5
CV4 B93 B37 B92 B91 B26 B33 B34
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.