Planes overhead in UB7
Hillingdon, London. All 613 of its postcodes measured (19 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
For Heathrow's expansion consultation, open until 22 December 2026: the planes over Hillingdon, council by council.
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 UB7. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 56% of days
Up to 310
a day
Of its 613 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 2
- on an edge
- 12
- under 10
- 599
On a day it flies both ways, 15% of days
Up to 189
a day
Of its 613 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 1
- on an edge
- 12
- under 10
- 600
On a day it flies east, 29% of days
Up to 2
a day
Of its 613 postcodes:
- under 10
- 613
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UB7 0100 postcodes | 2 at 100+ | 1 at 100+ | 100 under 10 |
| UB7 7204 postcodes | 204 under 10 | 204 under 10 | 204 under 10 |
| UB7 8137 postcodes | 137 under 10 | 137 under 10 | 137 under 10 |
| UB7 9172 postcodes | 172 under 10 | 172 under 10 | 172 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 UB7
TW6 TW5 UB2 TW14 UB1 TW4 TW3 HA4
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.