Planes overhead in BS34
South Gloucestershire, Bristol. All 842 of its postcodes measured (75 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 BS34. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 54% of days
Up to 13
a day
Of its 842 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 254
- under 10
- 588
On a day it flies both ways, 21% of days
Up to 10
a day
Of its 842 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 121
- under 10
- 721
On a day it flies east, 25% of days
Up to 3
a day
Of its 842 postcodes:
- under 10
- 842
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS34 420 postcodes | 19 at 10 to 99 | 20 under 10 | 20 under 10 |
| BS34 5277 postcodes | 17 at 10 to 99 | 277 under 10 | 277 under 10 |
| BS34 6161 postcodes | 161 under 10 | 161 under 10 | 161 under 10 |
| BS34 7171 postcodes | 170 at 10 to 99 | 119 at 10 to 99 | 171 under 10 |
| BS34 8213 postcodes | 48 at 10 to 99 | 2 at 10 to 99 | 213 under 10 |
1 of its postcodes have a position ONS estimates, so their figures may be for a spot a few hundred metres away.
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 BS34
BS10 BS7 BS16 BS5 BS11 BS15 BS8 BS35
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.