Planes overhead in BA1
Bath and North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire, Bristol. All 1,437 of its postcodes measured (89 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Bristol
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Bristol flies, and that decides how many pass over BA1. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 54% of days
Up to 50
a day
Of its 1,437 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 696
- under 10
- 741
On a day it flies both ways, 21% of days
Up to 31
a day
Of its 1,437 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 266
- under 10
- 1,171
On a day it flies east, 25% of days
Up to 6
a day
Of its 1,437 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,437
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 west54% of days | Both ways21% of days | Flying east25% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| BA1 038 postcodes | 38 under 10 | 38 under 10 | 38 under 10 |
| BA1 1146 postcodes | 146 under 10 | 146 under 10 | 146 under 10 |
| BA1 2210 postcodes | 48 at 10 to 99 | 3 at 10 to 99 | 210 under 10 |
| BA1 3176 postcodes | 103 at 10 to 99 | 45 at 10 to 99 | 176 under 10 |
| BA1 4130 postcodes | 130 at 10 to 99 | 124 at 10 to 99 | 130 under 10 |
| BA1 5199 postcodes | 104 at 10 to 99 | 9 at 10 to 99 | 199 under 10 |
| BA1 6225 postcodes | 151 at 10 to 99 | 225 under 10 | 225 under 10 |
| BA1 7193 postcodes | 48 at 10 to 99 | 193 under 10 | 193 under 10 |
| BA1 868 postcodes | 62 at 10 to 99 | 36 at 10 to 99 | 68 under 10 |
| BA1 952 postcodes | 50 at 10 to 99 | 49 at 10 to 99 | 52 under 10 |
3 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 BA1
BA2 BS31 BS30 BS15 BA3 BS39 BS14 BS16
The councils
- Bath and North East Somerset: noise and liveability score
- South Gloucestershire: noise and liveability score
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Bristol. 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.