Planes overhead in SE10
Greenwich and Lewisham, London. All 814 of its postcodes measured (35 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 SE10. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 200
a day
Of its 814 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 790
- 10 to 99
- 24
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 100
a day
Of its 814 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 5
- 10 to 99
- 809
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 814 postcodes:
- under 10
- 814
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE10 0367 postcodes | 343 at 100+ | 367 at 10 to 99 | 367 under 10 |
| SE10 8220 postcodes | 220 at 100+ | 5 at 100+ | 220 under 10 |
| SE10 9227 postcodes | 227 at 100+ | 227 at 10 to 99 | 227 under 10 |
From London City
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way London City flies, and that decides how many pass over SE10. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 63
a day
Of its 814 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 9
- on an edge
- 21
- under 10
- 784
On a day it flies both ways, 18% of days
Up to 36
a day
Of its 814 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 3
- on an edge
- 19
- under 10
- 792
On a day it flies east, 35% of days
Up to 64
a day
Of its 814 postcodes:
- on an edge
- 2
- under 10
- 812
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 west47% of days | Both ways18% of days | Flying east35% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE10 0367 postcodes | 9 at 10 to 99 | 3 at 10 to 99 | 2 on an edge |
| SE10 8220 postcodes | 220 under 10 | 220 under 10 | 220 under 10 |
| SE10 9227 postcodes | 227 under 10 | 227 under 10 | 227 under 10 |
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.
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 SE10
SE8 SE3 SE7 E14 SE13 SE14 E16 SE4
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Heathrow and London City. 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.