Planes overhead in BS24
North Somerset, Bristol. 639 of its 696 postcodes measured, the ones in North Somerset (3 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 BS24. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 54% of days
Up to 105
a day
Of its 639 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 16
- 10 to 99
- 426
- on an edge
- 1
- under 10
- 196
On a day it flies both ways, 21% of days
Up to 105
a day
Of its 639 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 13
- 10 to 99
- 293
- on an edge
- 1
- under 10
- 332
On a day it flies east, 25% of days
Up to 97
a day
Of its 639 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 12
- on an edge
- 3
- under 10
- 624
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS24 052 postcodes | 52 under 10 | 52 under 10 | 52 under 10 |
| BS24 642 postcodes | 16 at 100+ | 13 at 100+ | 12 at 10 to 99 |
| BS24 7224 postcodes | 181 at 10 to 99 | 163 at 10 to 99 | 224 under 10 |
| BS24 8130 postcodes | 109 at 10 to 99 | 87 at 10 to 99 | 130 under 10 |
| BS24 9191 postcodes | 127 at 10 to 99 | 34 at 10 to 99 | 191 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 BS24
BS22 BS29 BS23 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.