Planes overhead in OL12
Rochdale, Greater Manchester. 921 of its 1,164 postcodes measured, the ones in Rochdale (21 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 OL12. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 15
a day
Of its 921 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 554
- under 10
- 367
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 8
a day
Of its 921 postcodes:
- under 10
- 921
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 921 postcodes:
- under 10
- 921
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OL12 0186 postcodes | 132 at 10 to 99 | 186 under 10 | 186 under 10 |
| OL12 6244 postcodes | 185 at 10 to 99 | 244 under 10 | 244 under 10 |
| OL12 7241 postcodes | 210 at 10 to 99 | 241 under 10 | 241 under 10 |
| OL12 81 postcode | 1 under 10 | 1 under 10 | 1 under 10 |
| OL12 9249 postcodes | 27 at 10 to 99 | 249 under 10 | 249 under 10 |
6 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 OL12
OL11 OL16 OL15 OL10 OL2 M24 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.