Planes overhead in OL15
Rochdale and Calderdale, Greater Manchester. All 534 of its postcodes measured (5 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 OL15. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 10
a day
Of its 534 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 1
- under 10
- 533
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 4
a day
Of its 534 postcodes:
- under 10
- 534
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Under 1
a day, at all 534 of its postcodes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OL15 0135 postcodes | 1 at 10 to 99 | 135 under 10 | 135 under 10 |
| OL15 8207 postcodes | 207 under 10 | 207 under 10 | 207 under 10 |
| OL15 9192 postcodes | 192 under 10 | 192 under 10 | 192 under 10 |
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 OL15
OL16 OL12 OL11 OL2 OL10 OL1 OL4 OL3
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.