Planes overhead in OL10
Rochdale, Greater Manchester. All 800 of its postcodes measured (20 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 OL10. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 36
a day
Of its 800 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 800
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 17
a day
Of its 800 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 249
- under 10
- 551
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 800 postcodes:
- under 10
- 800
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OL10 1142 postcodes | 142 at 10 to 99 | 7 at 10 to 99 | 142 under 10 |
| OL10 2207 postcodes | 207 at 10 to 99 | 196 at 10 to 99 | 207 under 10 |
| OL10 3209 postcodes | 209 at 10 to 99 | 46 at 10 to 99 | 209 under 10 |
| OL10 4242 postcodes | 242 at 10 to 99 | 242 under 10 | 242 under 10 |
3 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 OL10
OL11 BL9 M24 OL12 M45 OL16 BL8 M9
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.