Planes overhead in BL0
Bury, Greater Manchester. 405 of its 557 postcodes measured, the ones in Bury (7 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Manchester
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Manchester flies, and that decides how many pass over BL0. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 41
a day
Of its 405 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 1
- under 10
- 404
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 22
a day
Of its 405 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 1
- under 10
- 404
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Up to 3
a day
Of its 405 postcodes:
- under 10
- 405
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 west70% of days | Both ways10% of days | Flying east20% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| BL0 077 postcodes | 77 under 10 | 77 under 10 | 77 under 10 |
| BL0 9328 postcodes | 1 at 10 to 99 | 1 at 10 to 99 | 328 under 10 |
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 BL0
BL8 BL9 BL7 BL2 OL10 M26 BL1 OL11
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Manchester. 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.