Planes overhead in SE15
Southwark and Lewisham, London. All 1,166 of its postcodes measured (30 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 SE15. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 442
a day
Of its 1,166 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 1,166
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 236
a day
Of its 1,166 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 1,163
- 10 to 99
- 3
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 3
a day
Of its 1,166 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,166
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE15 1158 postcodes | 158 at 100+ | 158 at 100+ | 158 under 10 |
| SE15 2198 postcodes | 198 at 100+ | 198 at 100+ | 198 under 10 |
| SE15 3224 postcodes | 224 at 100+ | 221 at 100+ | 224 under 10 |
| SE15 4151 postcodes | 151 at 100+ | 151 at 100+ | 151 under 10 |
| SE15 5191 postcodes | 191 at 100+ | 191 at 100+ | 191 under 10 |
| SE15 6244 postcodes | 244 at 100+ | 244 at 100+ | 244 under 10 |
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 SE15
SE14 SE5 SE22 SE4 SE17 SE8 SE16 SE24
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.