Planes overhead in SK14
Tameside and Stockport, Greater Manchester. 1,226 of its 1,227 postcodes measured, the ones in Tameside and Stockport (82 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 SK14. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 271
a day
Of its 1,226 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 390
- 10 to 99
- 543
- on an edge
- 171
- under 10
- 122
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 164
a day
Of its 1,226 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 399
- 10 to 99
- 669
- on an edge
- 136
- under 10
- 22
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Up to 84
a day
Of its 1,226 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 1,136
- on an edge
- 6
- under 10
- 84
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SK14 1146 postcodes | 145 at 100+ | 145 at 100+ | 146 at 10 to 99 |
| SK14 2148 postcodes | 114 at 100+ | 115 at 100+ | 148 at 10 to 99 |
| SK14 3227 postcodes | 17 at 100+ | 19 at 100+ | 214 at 10 to 99 |
| SK14 4270 postcodes | 74 at 100+ | 77 at 100+ | 264 at 10 to 99 |
| SK14 5210 postcodes | 40 at 100+ | 43 at 100+ | 210 at 10 to 99 |
| SK14 6145 postcodes | 137 at 10 to 99 | 141 at 10 to 99 | 107 at 10 to 99 |
| SK14 880 postcodes | 80 at 10 to 99 | 80 at 10 to 99 | 47 at 10 to 99 |
On an edge: the postcode is on the edge of a flight path, where a few metres decide whether a plane counts as overhead, and the fewest and the most within 100 m of it fall in different bands.
2 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 SK14
SK16 SK15 M34 OL6 SK6 OL7 SK5 OL5
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.