Planes overhead in BD20
Bradford, West Yorkshire. 863 of its 1,370 postcodes measured, the ones in Bradford (11 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 BD20. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 36
a day
Of its 863 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 143
- under 10
- 720
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 19
a day
Of its 863 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 134
- under 10
- 729
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 15
a day
Of its 863 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 275
- under 10
- 588
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BD20 0205 postcodes | 205 under 10 | 205 under 10 | 174 at 10 to 99 |
| BD20 5248 postcodes | 142 at 10 to 99 | 134 at 10 to 99 | 248 under 10 |
| BD20 6265 postcodes | 1 at 10 to 99 | 265 under 10 | 265 under 10 |
| BD20 712 postcodes | 12 under 10 | 12 under 10 | 12 under 10 |
| BD20 832 postcodes | 32 under 10 | 32 under 10 | 32 under 10 |
| BD20 9101 postcodes | 101 under 10 | 101 under 10 | 101 at 10 to 99 |
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 BD20
BD21 BD22 BD16 LS29 BD17 BD18 LS20 BD7
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.