Planes overhead in BS7
City of Bristol and South Gloucestershire, Bristol. All 784 of its postcodes measured (8 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 BS7. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 54% of days
Up to 13
a day
Of its 784 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 340
- under 10
- 444
On a day it flies both ways, 21% of days
Up to 10
a day
Of its 784 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 120
- under 10
- 664
On a day it flies east, 25% of days
Up to 4
a day
Of its 784 postcodes:
- under 10
- 784
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS7 0279 postcodes | 243 at 10 to 99 | 95 at 10 to 99 | 279 under 10 |
| BS7 8207 postcodes | 207 under 10 | 207 under 10 | 207 under 10 |
| BS7 9298 postcodes | 97 at 10 to 99 | 25 at 10 to 99 | 298 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 BS7
BS10 BS5 BS34 BS8 BS16 BS4 BS15 BS11
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.