Planes overhead in WF4
Wakefield and Kirklees, West Yorkshire. All 1,254 of its postcodes measured (15 PO boxes and other large-user postcodes left out), January to August 2026.
From Leeds Bradford
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Leeds Bradford flies, and that decides how many pass over WF4. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 14
a day
Of its 1,254 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 221
- under 10
- 1,033
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 6
a day
Of its 1,254 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,254
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 1,254 postcodes:
- under 10
- 1,254
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 west47% of days | Both ways26% of days | Flying east27% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| WF4 1235 postcodes | 5 at 10 to 99 | 235 under 10 | 235 under 10 |
| WF4 2201 postcodes | 201 under 10 | 201 under 10 | 201 under 10 |
| WF4 3214 postcodes | 214 under 10 | 214 under 10 | 214 under 10 |
| WF4 4277 postcodes | 60 at 10 to 99 | 277 under 10 | 277 under 10 |
| WF4 5188 postcodes | 45 at 10 to 99 | 188 under 10 | 188 under 10 |
| WF4 6139 postcodes | 111 at 10 to 99 | 139 under 10 | 139 under 10 |
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 WF4
WF2 WF1 WF5 WF12 WF3 WF6 WF13 WF7
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Leeds Bradford. 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.