Planes overhead in BS22
North Somerset, Bristol. All 939 of its postcodes measured (7 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 BS22. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 54% of days
Up to 101
a day
Of its 939 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 1
- 10 to 99
- 855
- under 10
- 83
On a day it flies both ways, 21% of days
Up to 103
a day
Of its 939 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 3
- 10 to 99
- 917
- under 10
- 19
On a day it flies east, 25% of days
Up to 96
a day
Of its 939 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 177
- on an edge
- 53
- under 10
- 709
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS22 6220 postcodes | 220 at 10 to 99 | 220 at 10 to 99 | 2 at 10 to 99 |
| BS22 7207 postcodes | 1 at 100+ | 3 at 100+ | 62 at 10 to 99 |
| BS22 8255 postcodes | 249 at 10 to 99 | 247 at 10 to 99 | 255 under 10 |
| BS22 9257 postcodes | 180 at 10 to 99 | 246 at 10 to 99 | 113 at 10 to 99 |
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 BS22
BS24 BS23 BS29 BS49 BS21 BS40 BS20 BS41
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.