Planes overhead in N8
Haringey and Islington, London. All 667 of its postcodes measured (33 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 N8. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 179
a day
Of its 667 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 667
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 111
a day
Of its 667 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 384
- 10 to 99
- 283
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 14
a day
Of its 667 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 46
- under 10
- 621
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| N8 0153 postcodes | 153 at 100+ | 35 at 100+ | 153 under 10 |
| N8 7181 postcodes | 181 at 100+ | 34 at 100+ | 19 at 10 to 99 |
| N8 8163 postcodes | 163 at 100+ | 154 at 100+ | 27 at 10 to 99 |
| N8 9170 postcodes | 170 at 100+ | 161 at 100+ | 170 under 10 |
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 N8
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.