Planes overhead in BS8
City of Bristol and North Somerset, Bristol. All 759 of its postcodes measured (67 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 BS8. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 54% of days
Up to 2
a day
Of its 759 postcodes:
- under 10
- 759
On a day it flies both ways, 21% of days
Up to 6
a day
Of its 759 postcodes:
- under 10
- 759
On a day it flies east, 25% of days
Up to 10
a day
Of its 759 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 2
- under 10
- 757
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS8 1151 postcodes | 151 under 10 | 151 under 10 | 151 under 10 |
| BS8 2183 postcodes | 183 under 10 | 183 under 10 | 183 under 10 |
| BS8 3215 postcodes | 215 under 10 | 215 under 10 | 2 at 10 to 99 |
| BS8 4210 postcodes | 210 under 10 | 210 under 10 | 210 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 BS8
BS7 BS41 BS4 BS5 BS10 BS11 BS14 BS15
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.