Combines Heathrow's published 2026 runway alternation schedule with live and forecast EGLL wind to estimate whether landing traffic is crossing the Gardens.
Date & current wind
These fields fill automatically from the live EGLL METAR below. Edit them by hand any time to test a different wind.
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Heathrow TAF
Official aviation forecast for Heathrow
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When
Change
Wind
Tailwind
Predicted runway
Times are London time. BECMG changes are taken to happen halfway through their window. TEMPO and PROB lines are short-lived variations and aren’t used for runway direction. Predicted runway uses each line’s tailwind alone, for as long as that wind applies: 09L when it’s above 5kt, otherwise the published 27L/27R alternation (swapping at 3pm). The hourly table below adds persistence, so it can hold a direction for longer. The TAF covers about the next 30 hours; the hourly forecast below uses it for those hours and the Met Office model after that.
Summary
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Probably — westerly operations are the default
About 70–75% of days run westerly, so arrivals cross Kew from the east roughly every 90 seconds during the day.
Live arrivals
What are planes actually landing on?
Waiting for live wind, then fetching aircraft positions around Heathrow…
Schedule
Runway schedule for this time
Week commencing–
06:00–15:00 landings–
15:00–last departure–
Active half now–
27R — passes most directly over Kew, the noisier of the two27L — still audible from Kew, but noticeably quieter09L/09R (easterly) — not over Kew, no scheduled noise
Forecast
Hour-by-hour wind forecast
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Hour
Wind
Tailwind*
Source
Runway
27R27L09L/09Rnight pattern
*Tailwind component for a westerly (27) landing — see footer. Wind comes from the Heathrow TAF where it covers the hour, otherwise the Met Office model (Open-Meteo, ukmo_seamless), or reanalysis for past dates. Runway direction has persistence: it only switches to easterly once the tailwind stays above 5kt for 2 hours, and back to westerly once it stays at or below 4kt for 2 hours. From the current hour it starts from what’s observed now (live arrivals, else the METAR). held marks hours where the direction is kept even though the tailwind alone would say otherwise.