Planes overhead in BS22
North Somerset, Bristol. All 946 of its postcodes measured, January to August 2026.
From Bristol
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Bristol flies, and that decides how many pass over BS22. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (54% of days): up to 101 a day; of its 946 postcodes, 1 at 100+, 860 at 10 to 99, 85 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (21% of days): up to 103 a day; of its 946 postcodes, 3 at 100+, 924 at 10 to 99, 19 under 10
- On a day it flies east (25% of days): up to 96 a day; of its 946 postcodes, 179 at 10 to 99, 54 on an edge, 713 under 10
The table counts the postcodes of each sector by how many planes pass over them a day: 100 or more, 10 to 99, or under 10.
| Sector | Flying west54% of days | Both ways21% of days | Flying east25% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS22 6221 postcodes | 221 at 10 to 99 | 221 at 10 to 99 | 2 at 10 to 998 on an edge211 under 10 |
| BS22 7209 postcodes | 1 at 100+208 at 10 to 99 | 3 at 100+206 at 10 to 99 | 62 at 10 to 9934 on an edge113 under 10 |
| BS22 8256 postcodes | 250 at 10 to 996 under 10 | 248 at 10 to 998 under 10 | 256 under 10 |
| BS22 9260 postcodes | 181 at 10 to 9979 under 10 | 249 at 10 to 9911 under 10 | 115 at 10 to 9912 on an edge133 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.
Near BS22
BS24 BS23 BS29 BS49 BS21 BS40 BS20 BS41
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Bristol. 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.