Planes overhead in LS5
Leeds, West Yorkshire. All 210 of its postcodes measured (2 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 LS5. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 55
a day
Of its 210 postcodes:
- on an edge
- 49
- under 10
- 161
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 51
a day
Of its 210 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 165
- on an edge
- 22
- under 10
- 23
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 46
a day
Of its 210 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 178
- on an edge
- 16
- under 10
- 16
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LS5 21 postcode | 1 on an edge | 1 at 10 to 99 | 1 at 10 to 99 |
| LS5 3209 postcodes | 48 on an edge | 164 at 10 to 99 | 177 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 LS5
LS4 LS13 LS6 LS18 LS12 LS16 LS3 LS7
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.