Planes overhead in LS12
Leeds, West Yorkshire. All 1,187 of its postcodes measured (42 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 LS12. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 54
a day
Of its 1,187 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 10
- on an edge
- 41
- under 10
- 1,136
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 31
a day
Of its 1,187 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 301
- on an edge
- 41
- under 10
- 845
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 29
a day
Of its 1,187 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 406
- on an edge
- 6
- under 10
- 775
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LS12 1192 postcodes | 10 at 10 to 99 | 10 at 10 to 99 | 31 at 10 to 99 |
| LS12 2181 postcodes | 9 on an edge | 64 at 10 to 99 | 69 at 10 to 99 |
| LS12 3233 postcodes | 233 under 10 | 131 at 10 to 99 | 177 at 10 to 99 |
| LS12 4245 postcodes | 245 under 10 | 13 at 10 to 99 | 28 at 10 to 99 |
| LS12 5231 postcodes | 231 under 10 | 83 at 10 to 99 | 101 at 10 to 99 |
| LS12 6105 postcodes | 105 under 10 | 105 under 10 | 105 under 10 |
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.
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 LS12
LS4 LS3 LS11 LS1 LS13 LS5 LS2 LS6
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.