Planes overhead in LE8
Blaby and Harborough, Leicester. All 872 of its postcodes measured (14 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 LE8. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 16
a day
Of its 872 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 58
- under 10
- 814
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 9
a day
Of its 872 postcodes:
- under 10
- 872
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 872 postcodes:
- under 10
- 872
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE8 0189 postcodes | 189 under 10 | 189 under 10 | 189 under 10 |
| LE8 4129 postcodes | 129 under 10 | 129 under 10 | 129 under 10 |
| LE8 5171 postcodes | 171 under 10 | 171 under 10 | 171 under 10 |
| LE8 6172 postcodes | 172 under 10 | 172 under 10 | 172 under 10 |
| LE8 8110 postcodes | 110 under 10 | 110 under 10 | 110 under 10 |
| LE8 9101 postcodes | 58 at 10 to 99 | 101 under 10 | 101 under 10 |
2 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 LE8
LE2 LE9 LE7 LE6 CV13 LE12 LE67 LE14
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.