Planes overhead in HA0
Brent and Ealing, London. All 817 of its postcodes measured (43 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 HA0. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 5
a day
Of its 817 postcodes:
- under 10
- 817
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 56
a day
Of its 817 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 363
- under 10
- 454
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 145
a day
Of its 817 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 711
- on an edge
- 6
- under 10
- 100
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HA0 1195 postcodes | 195 under 10 | 181 at 10 to 99 | 189 at 10 to 99 |
| HA0 2227 postcodes | 227 under 10 | 17 at 10 to 99 | 127 at 10 to 99 |
| HA0 3196 postcodes | 196 under 10 | 196 under 10 | 196 at 10 to 99 |
| HA0 4199 postcodes | 199 under 10 | 165 at 10 to 99 | 199 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.
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 HA0
HA9 UB6 HA1 NW10 W5 W13 HA2 W7
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for 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.