Planes overhead in UB6
Ealing and Harrow, London. All 816 of its postcodes measured (44 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 UB6. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 2
a day
Of its 816 postcodes:
- under 10
- 816
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 24
a day
Of its 816 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 5
- under 10
- 811
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 79
a day
Of its 816 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 143
- under 10
- 673
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UB6 0213 postcodes | 213 under 10 | 213 under 10 | 21 at 10 to 99 |
| UB6 7141 postcodes | 141 under 10 | 3 at 10 to 99 | 92 at 10 to 99 |
| UB6 8242 postcodes | 242 under 10 | 2 at 10 to 99 | 30 at 10 to 99 |
| UB6 9220 postcodes | 220 under 10 | 220 under 10 | 220 under 10 |
Over 127 of its postcodes, other flying passes too, from airfields, helicopters and airports we cannot check against official counts, so few planes from the airports we count does not mean a quiet sky there.
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 UB6
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.