Planes overhead in M14
Manchester, Greater Manchester. All 1,017 of its postcodes measured (26 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Manchester
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Manchester flies, and that decides how many pass over M14. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 2
a day
Of its 1,017 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,017
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 15
a day
Of its 1,017 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 69
- under 10
- 948
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Up to 32
a day
Of its 1,017 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 302
- under 10
- 715
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 west70% of days | Both ways10% of days | Flying east20% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| M14 4208 postcodes | 208 under 10 | 208 under 10 | 208 under 10 |
| M14 5252 postcodes | 252 under 10 | 252 under 10 | 252 under 10 |
| M14 6325 postcodes | 325 under 10 | 59 at 10 to 99 | 205 at 10 to 99 |
| M14 7232 postcodes | 232 under 10 | 10 at 10 to 99 | 97 at 10 to 99 |
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 M14
M19 M16 M20 M21 SK4 SK5 M32 M17
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Manchester. 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.