Planes overhead in NW8
Westminster and Camden, London. All 794 of its postcodes measured (41 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 NW8. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 4
a day
Of its 794 postcodes:
- under 10
- 794
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 18
a day
Of its 794 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 88
- under 10
- 706
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 35
a day
Of its 794 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 198
- under 10
- 596
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NW8 0141 postcodes | 141 under 10 | 77 at 10 to 99 | 136 at 10 to 99 |
| NW8 6134 postcodes | 134 under 10 | 11 at 10 to 99 | 53 at 10 to 99 |
| NW8 7147 postcodes | 147 under 10 | 147 under 10 | 147 under 10 |
| NW8 8194 postcodes | 194 under 10 | 194 under 10 | 194 under 10 |
| NW8 9178 postcodes | 178 under 10 | 178 under 10 | 9 at 10 to 99 |
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 NW8
W9 NW6 NW1 NW3 W10 NW5 N1C WC1H
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.