Planes overhead in DA15
Bexley and Greenwich, London. All 472 of its postcodes measured (27 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 DA15. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 472 postcodes:
- under 10
- 472
On a day it flies both ways, 18% of days
Up to 28
a day
Of its 472 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 153
- on an edge
- 67
- under 10
- 252
On a day it flies east, 35% of days
Up to 61
a day
Of its 472 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 178
- on an edge
- 73
- under 10
- 221
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DA15 7115 postcodes | 115 under 10 | 50 at 10 to 99 | 61 at 10 to 99 |
| DA15 8227 postcodes | 227 under 10 | 69 at 10 to 99 | 82 at 10 to 99 |
| DA15 9130 postcodes | 130 under 10 | 34 at 10 to 99 | 35 at 10 to 99 |
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 DA15. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 18
a day
Of its 472 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 114
- under 10
- 358
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 15
a day
Of its 472 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 103
- under 10
- 369
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 21
a day
Of its 472 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 136
- under 10
- 336
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DA15 7115 postcodes | 45 at 10 to 99 | 89 at 10 to 99 | 115 at 10 to 99 |
| DA15 8227 postcodes | 69 at 10 to 99 | 14 at 10 to 99 | 14 at 10 to 99 |
| DA15 9130 postcodes | 130 under 10 | 130 under 10 | 7 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 23 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 DA15
DA14 DA16 DA5 SE9 BR7 SE18 SE2 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.