Planes overhead in BD1
Bradford, West Yorkshire. All 393 of its postcodes measured (79 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Leeds Bradford
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Leeds Bradford flies, and that decides how many pass over BD1. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 3
a day
Of its 393 postcodes:
- under 10
- 393
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 10
a day
Of its 393 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 1
- under 10
- 392
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 15
a day
Of its 393 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 17
- under 10
- 376
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 west47% of days | Both ways26% of days | Flying east27% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| BD1 160 postcodes | 60 under 10 | 60 under 10 | 4 at 10 to 99 |
| BD1 288 postcodes | 88 under 10 | 88 under 10 | 88 under 10 |
| BD1 375 postcodes | 75 under 10 | 75 under 10 | 75 under 10 |
| BD1 481 postcodes | 81 under 10 | 81 under 10 | 81 under 10 |
| BD1 557 postcodes | 57 under 10 | 1 at 10 to 99 | 13 at 10 to 99 |
| BD1 932 postcodes | 32 under 10 | 32 under 10 | 32 under 10 |
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 BD1
BD3 BD5 BD7 BD4 BD6 BD18 LS28 BD17
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Leeds Bradford. 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.