Planes overhead in BD18
Bradford, West Yorkshire. All 707 of its postcodes measured (24 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 BD18. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 11
a day
Of its 707 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 180
- under 10
- 527
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 8
a day
Of its 707 postcodes:
- under 10
- 707
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 4
a day
Of its 707 postcodes:
- under 10
- 707
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BD18 1169 postcodes | 169 under 10 | 169 under 10 | 169 under 10 |
| BD18 2162 postcodes | 162 under 10 | 162 under 10 | 162 under 10 |
| BD18 3179 postcodes | 61 at 10 to 99 | 179 under 10 | 179 under 10 |
| BD18 4197 postcodes | 119 at 10 to 99 | 197 under 10 | 197 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 BD18
BD17 BD16 BD1 BD3 BD7 BD5 LS20 LS19
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.