Planes overhead in LS18
Leeds, West Yorkshire. All 525 of its postcodes measured (6 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 LS18. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 57
a day
Of its 525 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 23
- on an edge
- 109
- under 10
- 393
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 53
a day
Of its 525 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 121
- on an edge
- 63
- under 10
- 341
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 48
a day
Of its 525 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 146
- on an edge
- 43
- under 10
- 336
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LS18 4277 postcodes | 2 at 10 to 99 | 19 at 10 to 99 | 26 at 10 to 99 |
| LS18 5248 postcodes | 21 at 10 to 99 | 102 at 10 to 99 | 120 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.
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 LS18
LS16 LS5 LS13 LS19 LS28 LS4 LS6 LS12
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.