Planes overhead in M44
Salford, Greater Manchester. All 469 of its postcodes measured (9 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 M44. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 36
a day
Of its 469 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 468
- under 10
- 1
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 23
a day
Of its 469 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 469
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Up to 23
a day
Of its 469 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 274
- under 10
- 195
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| M44 5208 postcodes | 207 at 10 to 99 | 208 at 10 to 99 | 18 at 10 to 99 |
| M44 6261 postcodes | 261 at 10 to 99 | 261 at 10 to 99 | 256 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 M44
M31 M41 M30 M33 WA14 M29 M17 M32
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.