Planes overhead in BS10
City of Bristol and South Gloucestershire, Bristol. All 765 of its postcodes measured (12 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Bristol
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Bristol flies, and that decides how many pass over BS10. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 54% of days
Up to 13
a day
Of its 765 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 470
- under 10
- 295
On a day it flies both ways, 21% of days
Up to 10
a day
Of its 765 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 172
- under 10
- 593
On a day it flies east, 25% of days
Up to 7
a day
Of its 765 postcodes:
- under 10
- 765
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 west54% of days | Both ways21% of days | Flying east25% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS10 5202 postcodes | 83 at 10 to 99 | 17 at 10 to 99 | 202 under 10 |
| BS10 6268 postcodes | 231 at 10 to 99 | 103 at 10 to 99 | 268 under 10 |
| BS10 7295 postcodes | 156 at 10 to 99 | 52 at 10 to 99 | 295 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 BS10
BS7 BS34 BS11 BS8 BS5 BS16 BS4 BS15
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Bristol. 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.