Planes overhead in TW13
Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames, London. All 661 of its postcodes measured (31 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 TW13. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 2
a day
Of its 661 postcodes:
- under 10
- 661
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 108
a day
Of its 661 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 1
- 10 to 99
- 441
- under 10
- 219
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 275
a day
Of its 661 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 127
- 10 to 99
- 433
- on an edge
- 3
- under 10
- 98
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TW13 4212 postcodes | 212 under 10 | 19 at 10 to 99 | 114 at 10 to 99 |
| TW13 5149 postcodes | 149 under 10 | 1 at 100+ | 78 at 100+ |
| TW13 6181 postcodes | 181 under 10 | 181 at 10 to 99 | 49 at 100+ |
| TW13 7119 postcodes | 119 under 10 | 94 at 10 to 99 | 119 at 10 to 99 |
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 TW13
TW14 TW12 TW4 TW2 TW3 TW6 TW5 TW11
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.