Planes overhead in OL8
Oldham, Greater Manchester. All 832 of its postcodes measured (17 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 OL8. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 24
a day
Of its 832 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 784
- under 10
- 48
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 15
a day
Of its 832 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 591
- under 10
- 241
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Up to 3
a day
Of its 832 postcodes:
- under 10
- 832
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OL8 1202 postcodes | 202 at 10 to 99 | 202 at 10 to 99 | 202 under 10 |
| OL8 2237 postcodes | 237 at 10 to 99 | 230 at 10 to 99 | 237 under 10 |
| OL8 3222 postcodes | 175 at 10 to 99 | 61 at 10 to 99 | 222 under 10 |
| OL8 4171 postcodes | 170 at 10 to 99 | 98 at 10 to 99 | 171 under 10 |
9 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 OL8
OL9 OL1 OL4 OL7 OL6 OL5 OL2 M40
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.