Planes overhead in KT5
Kingston upon Thames, London. All 366 of its postcodes measured (8 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 KT5. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 20
a day
Of its 366 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 119
- under 10
- 247
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 13
a day
Of its 366 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 64
- under 10
- 302
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 366 postcodes:
- under 10
- 366
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KT5 8212 postcodes | 212 under 10 | 212 under 10 | 212 under 10 |
| KT5 9154 postcodes | 119 at 10 to 99 | 64 at 10 to 99 | 154 under 10 |
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 KT5
KT6 KT1 KT3 KT9 KT2 KT4 SW20 TW11
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.