Planes overhead in NG2
Rushcliffe, City of Nottingham and Gedling, Nottingham. All 1,289 of its postcodes measured (156 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 NG2. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 58% of days
Up to 12
a day
Of its 1,289 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 570
- under 10
- 719
On a day it flies both ways, 20% of days
Up to 6
a day
Of its 1,289 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,289
On a day it flies east, 22% of days
Under 1
a day, at all 1,289 of its postcodes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NG2 183 postcodes | 48 at 10 to 99 | 83 under 10 | 83 under 10 |
| NG2 2118 postcodes | 65 at 10 to 99 | 118 under 10 | 118 under 10 |
| NG2 3106 postcodes | 106 under 10 | 106 under 10 | 106 under 10 |
| NG2 4218 postcodes | 218 under 10 | 218 under 10 | 218 under 10 |
| NG2 5154 postcodes | 57 at 10 to 99 | 154 under 10 | 154 under 10 |
| NG2 6240 postcodes | 218 at 10 to 99 | 240 under 10 | 240 under 10 |
| NG2 7316 postcodes | 181 at 10 to 99 | 316 under 10 | 316 under 10 |
| NG2 954 postcodes | 1 at 10 to 99 | 54 under 10 | 54 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 NG2
NG7 NG11 NG12 NG8 NG9 DE74 LE12 LE14
The councils
- Rushcliffe: noise and liveability score
- City of Nottingham: noise and liveability score
- Gedling: 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.