Planes overhead in SE13
Lewisham and Greenwich, London. All 707 of its postcodes measured (28 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 SE13. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 206
a day
Of its 707 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 707
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 103
a day
Of its 707 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 7
- 10 to 99
- 700
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 6
a day
Of its 707 postcodes:
- under 10
- 707
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE13 5212 postcodes | 212 at 100+ | 212 at 10 to 99 | 212 under 10 |
| SE13 6200 postcodes | 200 at 100+ | 200 at 10 to 99 | 200 under 10 |
| SE13 7295 postcodes | 295 at 100+ | 7 at 100+ | 295 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 SE13. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Under 1
a day, at all 707 of its postcodes
On a day it flies both ways, 18% of days
Up to 27
a day
Of its 707 postcodes:
- on an edge
- 1
- under 10
- 706
On a day it flies east, 35% of days
Up to 60
a day
Of its 707 postcodes:
- on an edge
- 1
- under 10
- 706
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE13 5212 postcodes | 212 under 10 | 212 under 10 | 212 under 10 |
| SE13 6200 postcodes | 200 under 10 | 1 on an edge | 1 on an edge |
| SE13 7295 postcodes | 295 under 10 | 295 under 10 | 295 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.
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 SE13
SE4 SE3 SE6 SE12 SE8 SE10 SE14 SE23
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.