Planes overhead in N2
Barnet and Haringey, London. All 507 of its postcodes measured (39 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
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From Heathrow
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Heathrow flies, and that decides how many pass over N2. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 134
a day
Of its 507 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 448
- 10 to 99
- 59
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 107
a day
Of its 507 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 298
- 10 to 99
- 209
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 62
a day
Of its 507 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 507
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 west56% of days | Both ways15% of days | Flying east29% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| N2 0225 postcodes | 166 at 100+ | 70 at 100+ | 225 at 10 to 99 |
| N2 8131 postcodes | 131 at 100+ | 104 at 100+ | 131 at 10 to 99 |
| N2 9151 postcodes | 151 at 100+ | 124 at 100+ | 151 at 10 to 99 |
Also counted here: Stansted, at most 2 a day over any of its postcodes.
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 N2
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Heathrow. 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.