Planes overhead in DA14
Bexley and Bromley, London. 491 of its 494 postcodes measured, the ones in Bexley and Bromley (16 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
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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 DA14. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 491 postcodes:
- under 10
- 491
On a day it flies both ways, 18% of days
Up to 28
a day
Of its 491 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 64
- on an edge
- 42
- under 10
- 385
On a day it flies east, 35% of days
Up to 61
a day
Of its 491 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 74
- on an edge
- 44
- under 10
- 373
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DA14 4191 postcodes | 191 under 10 | 61 at 10 to 99 | 68 at 10 to 99 |
| DA14 5119 postcodes | 119 under 10 | 3 at 10 to 99 | 6 at 10 to 99 |
| DA14 6181 postcodes | 181 under 10 | 1 on an edge | 4 on an edge |
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 DA14. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 18
a day
Of its 491 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 54
- under 10
- 437
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 17
a day
Of its 491 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 397
- under 10
- 94
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 32
a day
Of its 491 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 482
- under 10
- 9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DA14 4191 postcodes | 191 under 10 | 108 at 10 to 99 | 182 at 10 to 99 |
| DA14 5119 postcodes | 119 under 10 | 108 at 10 to 99 | 119 at 10 to 99 |
| DA14 6181 postcodes | 54 at 10 to 99 | 181 at 10 to 99 | 181 at 10 to 99 |
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 193 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 DA14
DA15 DA5 BR7 BR5 DA16 SE9 BR1 SE12
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for London City and 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.