Planes overhead in BD4
Bradford, Leeds and Kirklees, West Yorkshire. All 954 of its postcodes measured (17 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 BD4. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 954 postcodes:
- under 10
- 954
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 16
a day
Of its 954 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 708
- under 10
- 246
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 26
a day
Of its 954 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 781
- under 10
- 173
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BD4 0206 postcodes | 206 under 10 | 150 at 10 to 99 | 174 at 10 to 99 |
| BD4 6212 postcodes | 212 under 10 | 41 at 10 to 99 | 73 at 10 to 99 |
| BD4 7163 postcodes | 163 under 10 | 163 at 10 to 99 | 163 at 10 to 99 |
| BD4 8210 postcodes | 210 under 10 | 210 at 10 to 99 | 210 at 10 to 99 |
| BD4 9163 postcodes | 163 under 10 | 144 at 10 to 99 | 161 at 10 to 99 |
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 BD4
BD3 BD5 BD1 LS28 BD7 BD6 LS13 BD18
The councils
- Bradford: noise and liveability score
- Leeds: noise and liveability score
- Kirklees: noise and liveability score
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.