Planes overhead in OL11
Rochdale, Greater Manchester. All 1,065 of its postcodes measured (12 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 OL11. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 24
a day
Of its 1,065 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 1,065
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 11
a day
Of its 1,065 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 67
- under 10
- 998
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 1,065 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,065
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OL11 1155 postcodes | 155 at 10 to 99 | 155 under 10 | 155 under 10 |
| OL11 2252 postcodes | 252 at 10 to 99 | 62 at 10 to 99 | 252 under 10 |
| OL11 3219 postcodes | 219 at 10 to 99 | 5 at 10 to 99 | 219 under 10 |
| OL11 4151 postcodes | 151 at 10 to 99 | 151 under 10 | 151 under 10 |
| OL11 5288 postcodes | 288 at 10 to 99 | 288 under 10 | 288 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 OL11
OL12 OL16 OL10 OL2 M24 OL15 BL9 OL1
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.