Planes overhead in BA3
Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol. 655 of its 1,253 postcodes measured, the ones in Bath and North East Somerset (34 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 BA3. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 54% of days
Up to 12
a day
Of its 655 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 1
- under 10
- 654
On a day it flies both ways, 21% of days
Up to 6
a day
Of its 655 postcodes:
- under 10
- 655
On a day it flies east, 25% of days
Under 1
a day, at all 655 of its postcodes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BA3 2276 postcodes | 1 at 10 to 99 | 276 under 10 | 276 under 10 |
| BA3 3305 postcodes | 305 under 10 | 305 under 10 | 305 under 10 |
| BA3 465 postcodes | 65 under 10 | 65 under 10 | 65 under 10 |
| BA3 59 postcodes | 9 under 10 | 9 under 10 | 9 under 10 |
1 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 BA3
BS39 BA2 BS31 BA1 BS14 BS40 BS30 BS4
The councils
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.