Planes overhead in LE12
Charnwood, Rushcliffe and North West Leicestershire, Leicester. All 1,567 of its postcodes measured (39 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From East Midlands
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way East Midlands flies, and that decides how many pass over LE12. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 78
a day
Of its 1,567 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 80
- on an edge
- 53
- under 10
- 1,434
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 73
a day
Of its 1,567 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 432
- on an edge
- 48
- under 10
- 1,087
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Up to 76
a day
Of its 1,567 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 401
- on an edge
- 7
- under 10
- 1,159
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 west58% of days | Both ways20% of days | Flying east22% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE12 5221 postcodes | 4 at 10 to 99 | 43 at 10 to 99 | 51 at 10 to 99 |
| LE12 6267 postcodes | 76 at 10 to 99 | 74 at 10 to 99 | 267 under 10 |
| LE12 7368 postcodes | 368 under 10 | 1 at 10 to 99 | 12 at 10 to 99 |
| LE12 8371 postcodes | 371 under 10 | 314 at 10 to 99 | 338 at 10 to 99 |
| LE12 9340 postcodes | 340 under 10 | 340 under 10 | 340 under 10 |
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.
3 of its postcodes have a position ONS estimates, so their figures may be for a spot a few hundred metres away.
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 LE12
DE74 LE6 LE7 LE67 NG11 NG9 NG12 LE2
The councils
- Charnwood: noise and liveability score
- Rushcliffe: noise and liveability score
- North West Leicestershire: noise and liveability score
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for East Midlands. 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.