Planes overhead in LE9
Hinckley and Bosworth, Blaby and Harborough, Leicester. All 1,259 of its postcodes measured (26 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 LE9. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 1,259 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,259
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 6
a day
Of its 1,259 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,259
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Up to 14
a day
Of its 1,259 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 75
- under 10
- 1,184
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LE9 176 postcodes | 76 under 10 | 76 under 10 | 76 under 10 |
| LE9 296 postcodes | 96 under 10 | 96 under 10 | 96 under 10 |
| LE9 377 postcodes | 77 under 10 | 77 under 10 | 77 under 10 |
| LE9 4173 postcodes | 173 under 10 | 173 under 10 | 173 under 10 |
| LE9 6190 postcodes | 190 under 10 | 190 under 10 | 190 under 10 |
| LE9 7280 postcodes | 280 under 10 | 280 under 10 | 12 at 10 to 99 |
| LE9 8187 postcodes | 187 under 10 | 187 under 10 | 187 under 10 |
| LE9 9180 postcodes | 180 under 10 | 180 under 10 | 63 at 10 to 99 |
14 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 LE9
LE6 CV13 LE2 LE8 LE67 LE7 LE12 DE12
The councils
- Hinckley and Bosworth: noise and liveability score
- Blaby: 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.