Why do planes fly over Råholt and Eidsvoll Verk so often?

Råholt and Eidsvoll Verk sit under the northern approach and departure corridors for Gardermoen's two parallel runways. When the airport lands southbound (runways 19L/19R), the arrival stream descends directly over this area, and northbound departures climb out the same way in the opposite flow. They are among the most consistently overflown settlements around OSL. Drop a pin on the map above to see the exact count and noise level for your street.

Which areas around Oslo Airport are quietest for aircraft noise?

Places well off the two north–south runway axes fare best — Ask in Gjerdrum to the south-south-west and Eidsvoll Sundet to the north-east hear mostly high-altitude overflights. Jessheim does better than its size suggests because departure corridors were deliberately drawn around it. The loudest band runs north-east of the field through Mogreina, Råholt and Eidsvoll Verk, plus Maura under the western departure turns. Oslo city itself, 35 km away, gets essentially no Gardermoen noise.

Are there night flights at Oslo Gardermoen?

Yes — OSL is a 24-hour airport. But between midnight and 6:30 AM all traffic uses a single runway (the western 01L/19R), the noisiest aircraft types are banned from departing, and reverse thrust beyond idle is prohibited. Night movements are far fewer than daytime and concentrated along one corridor, mainly affecting Maura and Nannestad to the north-west and areas near the western runway's southern end.

Will Oslo Airport get a third runway?

Not any time soon. The government paused Avinor's third-runway planning, and an independent expert committee reported in September 2024 that a third runway is unlikely to be needed before 2040 — while still recommending that land west of the airport stay reserved. That leaves Nannestad-side communities, which would bear the brunt of a western runway, in long-term planning limbo but with no construction on the horizon.

Why does Jessheim get less noise than smaller villages nearby?

By design. Gardermoen's departure corridors are written into a legally binding noise-prevention regulation, and they were deliberately drawn to route climbing aircraft around major settlements like Jessheim and Nannestad. All IFR departures above 5,700 kg must follow these corridors up to a defined noise-critical altitude. Jessheim still hears regular traffic, but obliquely rather than directly under a centreline — unlike Mogreina or Råholt, which sit closer to the flight tracks.

How do I complain about aircraft noise from Gardermoen?

Noise enquiries and complaints go to Avinor, the state airport operator, via its feedback form at tilbakemelding.avinor.no or the Oslo Airport switchboard on +47 64 81 20 00. Avinor runs a permanent noise-and-track monitoring system around Gardermoen and publishes monthly reports, so complaints can be checked against actual recorded flight tracks.

Which runway does Oslo Airport use, and what decides it?

OSL has two parallel north–south runways — 01L/19R (west, 3,600 m) and 01R/19L (east, 2,950 m) — and direction is set mainly by wind at the surface and aloft. Northbound operations (01) bring arrivals in over Kløfta from the south; southbound operations (19) bring arrivals down over Råholt and Eidsvoll Verk from the north. The route-density layer on the map above shows both flows clearly.

Does this map cover all flights at Oslo Gardermoen?

Effectively yes for airline traffic — the commercial fleet at OSL has near-complete ADS-B coverage, so the heatmap and route-density layers reflect actual movements. Some light general aviation and military traffic from nearby Sessvollmoen may be under-represented, but those are a small share of noise events compared with the ~224,000 airline movements a year.

Oslo Flight Path Noise Map – Oslo Airport Gardermoen (OSL)

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Aircraft noise around Oslo in October 2026

Loudest neighborhoods near Oslo: Råholt, Eidsvoll Verk, Mogreina, Maura, Gardermoen (village). Quietest: Eidsvoll (Sundet), Ask (Gjerdrum). Busiest around 3 PM local time averaging 679 flights/day. Source: Flight Path Noise monitoring data, 30 days to 2026-10-19.

Flights by hour · last 30 days

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Average daily traffic

679

flights / day · 20,375 total

Busiest hour

3 PM

peak 95 dB

Loudest hour

3 PM

peak 95 dB

Loudest residential area

Gardermoen (village)

69 dB avg · ~632 flights/day · Busy road

The namesake settlement and business park immediately south-west of the terminal; closest community to ground noise, taxiing and the western runway's southern end

Does Oslo Airport have a curfew?

Partial — a 24-hour airport, but a legally binding night regime runs 10:30 PM to 6:30 AM.

Oslo Gardermoen has no curfew — it operates around the clock — but night flying is tightly regulated by a binding noise-prevention regulation (Lovdata FOR-2015-12-17-1857), not just airport policy. The regulation defines night as 22:30–06:30. From midnight to 06:30 the airport collapses to single-runway operation on the western runway (01L/19R) for all traffic, and departures by aircraft noise-certified above 88 EPNdB are banned. From 22:30 to midnight, heavy jets run in segregated mode — landings on the eastern runway, departures on the western one. At night, reverse thrust beyond idle after landing is prohibited and engine runs above idle must use the dedicated test pit. Norway’s Civil Aviation Authority (Luftfartstilsynet) can grant exemptions. The practical effect is fewer, quieter night movements concentrated along a single north–south corridor rather than a silent airport.

Oslo Airport Gardermoen (OSL/ENGM) is unusual among European hubs: it was purpose-built in the 1990s on a rural plateau 35 km north-east of the capital, with departure corridors written directly into a legally binding noise-prevention regulation that pilots must follow up to a defined noise-critical altitude. There is no curfew — OSL runs 24 hours — but from midnight to 6:30 AM the airport collapses to single-runway operation on the western runway and bans the noisiest departures, concentrating night noise along one north–south corridor. The result is that the loudest complaints come not from Oslo itself but from the fast-growing commuter towns ringing the field: Råholt and Eidsvoll Verk under the northern flows, Jessheim to the south-east, and Maura and Nannestad under the western departure turns.

Which neighborhoods are quietest — and which aren’t

Gardermoen runs two parallel north–south runways: 01L/19R (west, 3,600 × 45 m) and 01R/19L (east, 2,950 × 45 m), together handling up to ~80 movements per hour and about 224,000 movements a year. Because both runways point almost due north–south, the noise footprint is a long corridor stretching north-east toward Eidsvoll and south toward Kløfta, with the corridors’ exact edges fixed by regulation rather than day-to-day ATC preference.

Area	Aircraft noise	Why
Råholt	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Under/beside northern approach and departure corridors
Eidsvoll Verk	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Under the northern arrival stream in 19 operations
Mogreina	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Near the eastern runway’s northern climb-out and approach
Maura	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Under western departure turns off the night runway
Gardermoen (village)	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Closest community; ground noise plus western runway’s southern end
Jessheim	✈︎✈︎	Corridors drawn to skirt it; oblique rather than direct overflight
Sand	✈︎✈︎	Near the southern approach to 01R and southbound departure turns
Nannestad (Teigebyen)	✈︎✈︎	Off-centreline; western departure turns
Dal	✈︎✈︎	Wider northern arrival/departure fan, east of Råholt
Nordkisa	✈︎✈︎	Eastbound departures off 01R
Kløfta	✈︎✈︎	On the southern approach axis for 01 arrivals
Sessvollmoen	✈︎✈︎	Between the two runways’ northern climb-outs
Eidsvoll (Sundet)	✈︎	Overflown at altitude only
Ask (Gjerdrum)	✈︎	Largely off-corridor; high overflights

The pattern is distinctive: the historically loudest band is north-east of the field, where Mogreina, Råholt, Eidsvoll Verk and Dal sit under the approach and climb-out fans, while the night-noise story belongs to the north-west — Maura and the Nannestad side catch the concentrated midnight-to-6:30 traffic off the western runway. Jessheim, despite being the biggest town in the area, does comparatively well because the binding departure corridors were drawn specifically to route jets around it. If you’re house-hunting in Ullensaker, Nannestad or Eidsvoll, drop a pin on the map above — exposure changes street by street near the corridor edges.

Flight patterns and runway use

Runway direction is set mainly by wind, at the surface and aloft. In northbound (01) operations, arrivals descend over the Kløfta area from the south and departures climb out toward Råholt, Eidsvoll Verk and Maura. In southbound (19) operations the flow reverses: the arrival stream comes down over Eidsvoll Verk and Råholt, and departures head south past Sand and Jessheim before turning on course.

What makes Gardermoen unusual is how little of this is left to discretion. A dedicated noise-prevention regulation (the Lovdata forskrift of 2015) makes the departure corridors legally binding for all IFR departures above 5,700 kg — aircraft must stay inside corridors defined in the regulation’s appendix until they pass the noise-critical altitude. The default climb technique is the NADP 2 profile, with the steeper NADP 1 required for eastbound departures off runway 01R because of communities like Nordkisa on that side. Arrivals are required to fly continuous-descent, low-power/low-drag approaches, and visual approaches are prohibited outright.

The night regime reshapes the pattern again. From 22:30 to midnight, heavy jets run in segregated mode — landings on the eastern runway (01R/19R), departures on the western (01L/19L). From midnight to 6:30 AM, everything moves to the western runway 01L/19R in single-runway operation, and departures by aircraft certified above 88 EPNdB are banned. Reverse thrust beyond idle is prohibited after night landings, and engine runs above idle must use the test pit. On the map above, the route-density layer shows the two parallel daytime corridors; the night pattern is the western one alone.

One long-running uncertainty hangs over the western side: the third-runway debate. The government paused Avinor’s planning in 2021–22, and a September 2024 expert committee concluded a third runway is unlikely to be needed before 2040 — while still recommending the land stay reserved. Nannestad-side residents thus face no new runway for the foreseeable future, but the reservation keeps the possibility on maps and in municipal plans.

When is it quietest?

Gardermoen’s 24-hour operation means there is no silent window, but the regulation shapes a clear daily rhythm:

Midnight – 6:30 AM: fewest movements, single-runway on the western 01L/19R, loudest types banned. Quiet for the eastern corridor (Mogreina, Dal, Nordkisa); the residual night traffic concentrates near Maura, Nannestad and the western runway ends.
6:30 AM – 9 AM: the morning departure bank — domestic trunk routes to Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger plus the first European wave. Both runways active; this is the loudest stretch of the day for most areas.
Midday: sustained but moderate traffic.
3 PM – 7 PM: afternoon/evening peak of arrivals and departures, comparable to the morning.
10:30 PM – midnight: traffic thins and heavy jets shift to segregated mode — arrivals on the east runway, departures on the west — so which side of the field you live on decides what you hear.

Wind flips matter too: a switch from 01 to 19 operations moves the low-altitude arrival stream from Kløfta’s side of the field to Råholt and Eidsvoll Verk’s, sometimes mid-afternoon. The hourly profile in the pin-drop report above shows how your address fares across a typical day.

How to check noise at your specific address

The map above answers “how loud is this street?” in three steps:

Search your address or postcode in the bar at the bottom of the map.
Drop a pin — click the location marker that appears.
Read the noise report in the sidebar: average daily noise (Leq), peak observed dB, flights per day passing within 2 km, and an hourly breakdown.

The Noise Heatmap layer (orange/red = louder) and the Route Density layer (purple/magenta = busier corridors) make the twin north–south corridors obvious, along with the departure turns that brush Maura and Nannestad. Because Gardermoen sits on a rural plateau, exposure drops quickly off-corridor — most addresses in Oslo city, Lillestrøm or south of Kløfta show as quiet, while the difference between one side of Råholt and the other can be a whole exposure band. Avinor also publishes monthly noise-and-track monitoring reports if you want to cross-check what the regulation requires against what actually flew.

Frequently asked questions

Why do planes fly over Råholt and Eidsvoll Verk so often?: Råholt and Eidsvoll Verk sit under the northern approach and departure corridors for Gardermoen's two parallel runways. When the airport lands southbound (runways 19L/19R), the arrival stream descends directly over this area, and northbound departures climb out the same way in the opposite flow. They are among the most consistently overflown settlements around OSL. Drop a pin on the map above to see the exact count and noise level for your street.
Which areas around Oslo Airport are quietest for aircraft noise?: Places well off the two north–south runway axes fare best — Ask in Gjerdrum to the south-south-west and Eidsvoll Sundet to the north-east hear mostly high-altitude overflights. Jessheim does better than its size suggests because departure corridors were deliberately drawn around it. The loudest band runs north-east of the field through Mogreina, Råholt and Eidsvoll Verk, plus Maura under the western departure turns. Oslo city itself, 35 km away, gets essentially no Gardermoen noise.
Are there night flights at Oslo Gardermoen?: Yes — OSL is a 24-hour airport. But between midnight and 6:30 AM all traffic uses a single runway (the western 01L/19R), the noisiest aircraft types are banned from departing, and reverse thrust beyond idle is prohibited. Night movements are far fewer than daytime and concentrated along one corridor, mainly affecting Maura and Nannestad to the north-west and areas near the western runway's southern end.
Will Oslo Airport get a third runway?: Not any time soon. The government paused Avinor's third-runway planning, and an independent expert committee reported in September 2024 that a third runway is unlikely to be needed before 2040 — while still recommending that land west of the airport stay reserved. That leaves Nannestad-side communities, which would bear the brunt of a western runway, in long-term planning limbo but with no construction on the horizon.
Why does Jessheim get less noise than smaller villages nearby?: By design. Gardermoen's departure corridors are written into a legally binding noise-prevention regulation, and they were deliberately drawn to route climbing aircraft around major settlements like Jessheim and Nannestad. All IFR departures above 5,700 kg must follow these corridors up to a defined noise-critical altitude. Jessheim still hears regular traffic, but obliquely rather than directly under a centreline — unlike Mogreina or Råholt, which sit closer to the flight tracks.
How do I complain about aircraft noise from Gardermoen?: Noise enquiries and complaints go to Avinor, the state airport operator, via its feedback form at tilbakemelding.avinor.no or the Oslo Airport switchboard on +47 64 81 20 00. Avinor runs a permanent noise-and-track monitoring system around Gardermoen and publishes monthly reports, so complaints can be checked against actual recorded flight tracks.
Which runway does Oslo Airport use, and what decides it?: OSL has two parallel north–south runways — 01L/19R (west, 3,600 m) and 01R/19L (east, 2,950 m) — and direction is set mainly by wind at the surface and aloft. Northbound operations (01) bring arrivals in over Kløfta from the south; southbound operations (19) bring arrivals down over Råholt and Eidsvoll Verk from the north. The route-density layer on the map above shows both flows clearly.
Does this map cover all flights at Oslo Gardermoen?: Effectively yes for airline traffic — the commercial fleet at OSL has near-complete ADS-B coverage, so the heatmap and route-density layers reflect actual movements. Some light general aviation and military traffic from nearby Sessvollmoen may be under-represented, but those are a small share of noise events compared with the ~224,000 airline movements a year.

Sources and further reading

Forskrift om støyforebygging for Oslo lufthavn, Gardermoen (FOR-2015-12-17-1857) — Lovdata / Luftfartstilsynet
Aircraft noise — Oslo Airport — Avinor
Third runway — Frequently Asked Questions — Avinor
Expert Committee on Gardermoen's Need for a Third Runway (Sept 2024) — NHH / Ministry of Transport committee
Oslo Airport Gardermoen noise abatement summary — Boeing airport noise regulation database
Oslo Airport, Gardermoen — Wikipedia

Data updated 2026-10-19 — live ADS-B monitoring, rolling 30-day statistics (methodology). Article text revised 2026-07-17.

30 dB	Whisper
45 dB	Quiet residential
55 dB	Normal conversation
65 dB	Busy road
75 dB	Vacuum cleaner
85 dB	Heavy traffic
95 dB	Motorcycle nearby

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