Planes overhead in LE14
Melton, Rushcliffe, Charnwood and Harborough, Leicester. All 680 of its postcodes measured (8 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 LE14. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 37
a day
Of its 680 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 76
- under 10
- 604
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 20
a day
Of its 680 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 54
- under 10
- 626
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 680 postcodes:
- under 10
- 680
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE14 2215 postcodes | 13 at 10 to 99 | 12 at 10 to 99 | 215 under 10 |
| LE14 3241 postcodes | 63 at 10 to 99 | 42 at 10 to 99 | 241 under 10 |
| LE14 4224 postcodes | 224 under 10 | 224 under 10 | 224 under 10 |
1 of its postcodes have a position ONS estimates, so their figures may be for a spot a few hundred metres away.
Over 21 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 LE14
LE7 NG12 LE12 NG11 NG2 LE2 NG7 LE6
The councils
- Melton: noise and liveability score
- Rushcliffe: noise and liveability score
- Charnwood: noise and liveability score
- Harborough: 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.