Planes overhead in SK7
Stockport, Greater Manchester. 999 of its 1,001 postcodes measured, the ones in Stockport (38 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 SK7. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 999 postcodes:
- under 10
- 999
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 46
a day
Of its 999 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 353
- on an edge
- 4
- under 10
- 642
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Up to 100
a day
Of its 999 postcodes:
- 100 or more
- 2
- 10 to 99
- 373
- on an edge
- 11
- under 10
- 613
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SK7 1217 postcodes | 217 under 10 | 216 at 10 to 99 | 2 at 100+ |
| SK7 2171 postcodes | 171 under 10 | 115 at 10 to 99 | 133 at 10 to 99 |
| SK7 3151 postcodes | 151 under 10 | 22 at 10 to 99 | 26 at 10 to 99 |
| SK7 4178 postcodes | 178 under 10 | 178 under 10 | 178 under 10 |
| SK7 5142 postcodes | 142 under 10 | 142 under 10 | 142 under 10 |
| SK7 6140 postcodes | 140 under 10 | 140 under 10 | 140 under 10 |
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.
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 SK7
SK2 SK3 SK1 SK8 SK6 SK4 SK5 M22
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.