Planes overhead in LE65
North West Leicestershire, Leicester. 441 of its 452 postcodes measured, the ones in North West Leicestershire (17 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 LE65. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 53
a day
Of its 441 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 322
- under 10
- 119
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 31
a day
Of its 441 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 320
- under 10
- 121
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Up to 25
a day
Of its 441 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 173
- under 10
- 268
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE65 1234 postcodes | 116 at 10 to 99 | 114 at 10 to 99 | 83 at 10 to 99 |
| LE65 2207 postcodes | 206 at 10 to 99 | 206 at 10 to 99 | 90 at 10 to 99 |
1 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 LE65
DE12 LE67 DE74 CV13 LE6 LE12 LE9 NG9
The councils
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.