Planes overhead in BS35
South Gloucestershire, Bristol. All 741 of its postcodes measured (16 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 BS35. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 54% of days
Up to 11
a day
Of its 741 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 9
- under 10
- 732
On a day it flies both ways, 21% of days
Up to 9
a day
Of its 741 postcodes:
- under 10
- 741
On a day it flies east, 25% of days
Up to 5
a day
Of its 741 postcodes:
- under 10
- 741
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS35 1232 postcodes | 232 under 10 | 232 under 10 | 232 under 10 |
| BS35 2175 postcodes | 175 under 10 | 175 under 10 | 175 under 10 |
| BS35 3150 postcodes | 150 under 10 | 150 under 10 | 150 under 10 |
| BS35 4156 postcodes | 4 at 10 to 99 | 156 under 10 | 156 under 10 |
| BS35 528 postcodes | 5 at 10 to 99 | 28 under 10 | 28 under 10 |
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 BS35
BS34 BS10 BS7 BS16 BS11 BS5 BS15 BS8
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.