Planes overhead in WF8
Wakefield and Doncaster, West Yorkshire. 952 of its 984 postcodes measured, the ones in Wakefield and Doncaster (38 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 WF8. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
On a day it flies west, 47% of days
Up to 12
a day
Of its 952 postcodes:
- 10 to 99
- 19
- under 10
- 933
On a day it flies both ways, 26% of days
Up to 6
a day
Of its 952 postcodes:
- under 10
- 952
On a day it flies east, 27% of days
Up to 1
a day
Of its 952 postcodes:
- under 10
- 952
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WF8 1185 postcodes | 185 under 10 | 185 under 10 | 185 under 10 |
| WF8 2324 postcodes | 324 under 10 | 324 under 10 | 324 under 10 |
| WF8 3195 postcodes | 19 at 10 to 99 | 195 under 10 | 195 under 10 |
| WF8 4248 postcodes | 248 under 10 | 248 under 10 | 248 under 10 |
1 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 WF8
WF7 WF10 WF6 WF9 LS26 WF1 WF2 WF4
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.