Planes overhead in WA15
Trafford and Manchester, Greater Manchester. 1,133 of its 1,152 postcodes measured, the ones in Trafford and Manchester (33 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 WA15. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 70% of days
Up to 18
a day
Of its 1,133 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 441
- under 10
- 692
On a day it flies both ways, 10% of days
Up to 21
a day
Of its 1,133 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 584
- under 10
- 549
On a day it flies east, 20% of days
Up to 26
a day
Of its 1,133 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 645
- under 10
- 488
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WA15 0166 postcodes | 166 under 10 | 166 under 10 | 166 under 10 |
| WA15 6244 postcodes | 244 at 10 to 99 | 244 at 10 to 99 | 244 at 10 to 99 |
| WA15 7281 postcodes | 134 at 10 to 99 | 191 at 10 to 99 | 206 at 10 to 99 |
| WA15 8251 postcodes | 36 at 10 to 99 | 65 at 10 to 99 | 80 at 10 to 99 |
| WA15 9191 postcodes | 27 at 10 to 99 | 84 at 10 to 99 | 115 at 10 to 99 |
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 WA15
WA14 M23 M90 M33 M22 M21 M32 M20
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.