Planes overhead in LS29
Bradford and Leeds, West Yorkshire. 1,177 of its 1,223 postcodes measured, the ones in Bradford and Leeds (23 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 LS29. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 53
a day
Of its 1,177 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 165
- on an edge
- 49
- under 10
- 963
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 35
a day
Of its 1,177 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 125
- on an edge
- 38
- under 10
- 1,014
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 40
a day
Of its 1,177 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 11
- on an edge
- 28
- under 10
- 1,138
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LS29 0207 postcodes | 207 under 10 | 207 under 10 | 2 at 10 to 99 |
| LS29 6249 postcodes | 64 at 10 to 99 | 32 at 10 to 99 | 249 under 10 |
| LS29 7254 postcodes | 101 at 10 to 99 | 93 at 10 to 99 | 9 at 10 to 99 |
| LS29 8260 postcodes | 260 under 10 | 260 under 10 | 260 under 10 |
| LS29 9207 postcodes | 207 under 10 | 207 under 10 | 207 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.
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 LS29
LS20 BD17 BD16 LS21 BD20 BD21 BD18 LS19
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.