Planes overhead in TW10
Richmond upon Thames and Kingston upon Thames, London. All 493 of its postcodes measured (22 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 TW10. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 318
a day
Of its 493 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 38
- on an edge
- 37
- under 10
- 418
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 190
a day
Of its 493 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 38
- 10 to 99
- 236
- on an edge
- 50
- under 10
- 169
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 178
a day
Of its 493 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 226
- 10 to 99
- 8
- on an edge
- 17
- under 10
- 242
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TW10 587 postcodes | 36 at 100+ | 36 at 100+ | 35 at 100+ |
| TW10 6191 postcodes | 2 at 100+ | 2 at 100+ | 191 under 10 |
| TW10 7215 postcodes | 215 under 10 | 200 at 10 to 99 | 191 at 100+ |
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 TW10
TW1 TW9 TW11 SW14 KT2 TW2 TW7 KT1
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.