Planes overhead in LS10
Leeds, West Yorkshire. All 881 of its postcodes measured (29 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Leeds Bradford
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Leeds Bradford flies, and that decides how many pass over LS10. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 54
a day
Of its 881 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 247
- on an edge
- 100
- under 10
- 534
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 33
a day
Of its 881 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 255
- on an edge
- 85
- under 10
- 541
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 17
a day
Of its 881 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 332
- on an edge
- 7
- under 10
- 542
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 west47% of days | Both ways26% of days | Flying east27% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| LS10 1179 postcodes | 141 at 10 to 99 | 144 at 10 to 99 | 179 at 10 to 99 |
| LS10 2124 postcodes | 93 at 10 to 99 | 95 at 10 to 99 | 109 at 10 to 99 |
| LS10 3267 postcodes | 13 at 10 to 99 | 13 at 10 to 99 | 27 at 10 to 99 |
| LS10 4311 postcodes | 17 on an edge | 3 at 10 to 99 | 17 at 10 to 99 |
On an edge: the postcode is on the edge of a flight path, where a few metres decide whether a plane counts as overhead, and the fewest and the most within 100 m of it fall in different bands.
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 LS10
LS11 LS1 WF3 LS9 LS2 LS3 LS12 LS26
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Leeds Bradford. 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.