Planes overhead in BS30
South Gloucestershire, Bristol. All 754 of its postcodes measured (4 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 BS30. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 54% of days
Up to 15
a day
Of its 754 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 334
- under 10
- 420
On a day it flies both ways, 21% of days
Up to 18
a day
Of its 754 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 648
- under 10
- 106
On a day it flies east, 25% of days
Up to 28
a day
Of its 754 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 495
- under 10
- 259
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS30 5170 postcodes | 77 at 10 to 99 | 71 at 10 to 99 | 2 at 10 to 99 |
| BS30 6138 postcodes | 58 at 10 to 99 | 131 at 10 to 99 | 104 at 10 to 99 |
| BS30 785 postcodes | 1 at 10 to 99 | 85 at 10 to 99 | 85 at 10 to 99 |
| BS30 8197 postcodes | 148 at 10 to 99 | 197 at 10 to 99 | 162 at 10 to 99 |
| BS30 9164 postcodes | 50 at 10 to 99 | 164 at 10 to 99 | 142 at 10 to 99 |
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 BS30
BS15 BS31 BS16 BS5 BS4 BS14 BS7 BA1
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.