Planes overhead in NW10
Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea, London. All 1,796 of its postcodes measured (53 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 NW10. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 10
a day
Of its 1,796 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 4
- under 10
- 1,792
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 78
a day
Of its 1,796 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 1,788
- on an edge
- 8
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 181
a day
Of its 1,796 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 1,020
- 10 to 99
- 775
- on an edge
- 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NW10 0198 postcodes | 4 at 10 to 99 | 198 at 10 to 99 | 198 at 10 to 99 |
| NW10 1171 postcodes | 171 under 10 | 171 at 10 to 99 | 1 at 100+ |
| NW10 2163 postcodes | 163 under 10 | 163 at 10 to 99 | 107 at 100+ |
| NW10 3172 postcodes | 172 under 10 | 172 at 10 to 99 | 122 at 100+ |
| NW10 4148 postcodes | 148 under 10 | 148 at 10 to 99 | 148 at 100+ |
| NW10 5224 postcodes | 224 under 10 | 218 at 10 to 99 | 75 at 100+ |
| NW10 6144 postcodes | 144 under 10 | 142 at 10 to 99 | 125 at 100+ |
| NW10 7193 postcodes | 193 under 10 | 193 at 10 to 99 | 187 at 100+ |
| NW10 8234 postcodes | 234 under 10 | 234 at 10 to 99 | 157 at 100+ |
| NW10 9149 postcodes | 149 under 10 | 149 at 10 to 99 | 98 at 100+ |
Also counted here: Stansted, at most 1 a day over any of its postcodes.
On an edge: the postcode is on the edge of a flight path, where a few metres decide whether a plane counts as overhead, and the fewest and the most within 100 m of it fall in different bands.
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 NW10
The councils
- Brent: noise and liveability score
- Ealing: noise and liveability score
- Hammersmith and Fulham: noise and liveability score
- Kensington and Chelsea: noise and liveability score
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.