Planes overhead in BS14
City of Bristol and Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol. All 722 of its postcodes measured (6 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 BS14. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 54% of days
Up to 105
a day
Of its 722 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 5
- on an edge
- 2
- under 10
- 715
On a day it flies both ways, 21% of days
Up to 114
a day
Of its 722 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 6
- 10 to 99
- 91
- on an edge
- 1
- under 10
- 624
On a day it flies east, 25% of days
Up to 97
a day
Of its 722 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 182
- on an edge
- 4
- under 10
- 536
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS14 0294 postcodes | 5 at 100+ | 6 at 100+ | 38 at 10 to 99 |
| BS14 8190 postcodes | 190 under 10 | 75 at 10 to 99 | 144 at 10 to 99 |
| BS14 9238 postcodes | 238 under 10 | 238 under 10 | 238 under 10 |
On an edge: the postcode is on the edge of a flight path, where a few metres decide whether a plane counts as overhead, and the fewest and the most within 100 m of it fall in different bands.
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 BS14
BS4 BS31 BS5 BS41 BS8 BS15 BS30 BS7
The councils
- City of Bristol: noise and liveability score
- Bath and North East Somerset: noise and liveability score
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.