Planes overhead in LE7
Charnwood, Harborough, Melton, Leicester and Blaby, Leicester. All 1,219 of its postcodes measured (22 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 LE7. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 41
a day
Of its 1,219 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 292
- under 10
- 927
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 22
a day
Of its 1,219 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 138
- under 10
- 1,081
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Up to 17
a day
Of its 1,219 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 2
- under 10
- 1,217
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE7 1115 postcodes | 115 under 10 | 115 under 10 | 115 under 10 |
| LE7 2143 postcodes | 143 under 10 | 143 under 10 | 143 under 10 |
| LE7 3183 postcodes | 39 at 10 to 99 | 14 at 10 to 99 | 183 under 10 |
| LE7 4117 postcodes | 71 at 10 to 99 | 28 at 10 to 99 | 117 under 10 |
| LE7 613 postcodes | 13 under 10 | 13 under 10 | 13 under 10 |
| LE7 7322 postcodes | 322 under 10 | 322 under 10 | 2 at 10 to 99 |
| LE7 9326 postcodes | 182 at 10 to 99 | 96 at 10 to 99 | 326 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 6 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 LE7
LE2 LE6 LE12 LE8 LE14 LE9 LE67 CV13
The councils
- Charnwood: noise and liveability score
- Harborough: noise and liveability score
- Melton: noise and liveability score
- Leicester: noise and liveability score
- Blaby: 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.