Planes overhead in LS13
Leeds, West Yorkshire. All 886 of its postcodes measured (17 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 LS13. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 886 postcodes:
- under 10
- 886
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 18
a day
Of its 886 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 241
- under 10
- 645
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 29
a day
Of its 886 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 327
- under 10
- 559
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LS13 1187 postcodes | 187 under 10 | 187 under 10 | 187 under 10 |
| LS13 2248 postcodes | 248 under 10 | 67 at 10 to 99 | 106 at 10 to 99 |
| LS13 3212 postcodes | 212 under 10 | 7 at 10 to 99 | 22 at 10 to 99 |
| LS13 4239 postcodes | 239 under 10 | 167 at 10 to 99 | 199 at 10 to 99 |
2 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 LS13
LS5 LS28 LS18 LS12 LS4 LS6 LS3 LS16
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.