Planes overhead in BD3
Bradford and Leeds, West Yorkshire. All 566 of its postcodes measured (13 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 BD3. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 3
a day
Of its 566 postcodes:
- under 10
- 566
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 11
a day
Of its 566 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 41
- under 10
- 525
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 17
a day
Of its 566 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 136
- under 10
- 430
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BD3 0150 postcodes | 150 under 10 | 150 under 10 | 150 under 10 |
| BD3 7129 postcodes | 129 under 10 | 129 under 10 | 129 under 10 |
| BD3 8152 postcodes | 152 under 10 | 18 at 10 to 99 | 78 at 10 to 99 |
| BD3 9135 postcodes | 135 under 10 | 23 at 10 to 99 | 58 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 BD3
BD1 BD4 BD5 LS28 BD7 BD18 BD6 LS13
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.