Planes overhead in BD5
Bradford, West Yorkshire. All 591 of its postcodes measured (31 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 BD5. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 591 postcodes:
- under 10
- 591
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 12
a day
Of its 591 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 309
- under 10
- 282
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 19
a day
Of its 591 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 591
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BD5 0149 postcodes | 149 under 10 | 22 at 10 to 99 | 149 at 10 to 99 |
| BD5 7115 postcodes | 115 under 10 | 109 at 10 to 99 | 115 at 10 to 99 |
| BD5 8171 postcodes | 171 under 10 | 154 at 10 to 99 | 171 at 10 to 99 |
| BD5 9156 postcodes | 156 under 10 | 24 at 10 to 99 | 156 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 BD5
BD7 BD1 BD6 BD4 BD3 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.