Planes overhead in HA5
Harrow and Hillingdon, London. 1,050 of its 1,051 postcodes measured, the ones in Harrow and Hillingdon (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 HA5. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 4
a day
Of its 1,050 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,050
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 14
a day
Of its 1,050 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 603
- under 10
- 447
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 11
a day
Of its 1,050 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 96
- under 10
- 954
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HA5 1183 postcodes | 183 under 10 | 3 at 10 to 99 | 183 under 10 |
| HA5 2213 postcodes | 213 under 10 | 95 at 10 to 99 | 22 at 10 to 99 |
| HA5 3260 postcodes | 260 under 10 | 257 at 10 to 99 | 72 at 10 to 99 |
| HA5 4221 postcodes | 221 under 10 | 221 at 10 to 99 | 2 at 10 to 99 |
| HA5 5173 postcodes | 173 under 10 | 27 at 10 to 99 | 173 under 10 |
Over 74 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.
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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.