Planes overhead in BS24
North Somerset, Bristol. 642 of its 699 postcodes measured, the ones in North Somerset, 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 BS24. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (54% of days): up to 105 a day; of its 642 postcodes, 17 at 100+, 428 at 10 to 99, 1 on an edge, 196 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (21% of days): up to 105 a day; of its 642 postcodes, 14 at 100+, 295 at 10 to 99, 1 on an edge, 332 under 10
- On a day it flies east (25% of days): up to 97 a day; of its 642 postcodes, 13 at 10 to 99, 3 on an edge, 626 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BS24 052 postcodes | 52 under 10 | 52 under 10 | 52 under 10 |
| BS24 643 postcodes | 17 at 100+9 at 10 to 991 on an edge16 under 10 | 14 at 100+9 at 10 to 991 on an edge19 under 10 | 13 at 10 to 993 on an edge27 under 10 |
| BS24 7224 postcodes | 181 at 10 to 9943 under 10 | 163 at 10 to 9961 under 10 | 224 under 10 |
| BS24 8130 postcodes | 109 at 10 to 9921 under 10 | 87 at 10 to 9943 under 10 | 130 under 10 |
| BS24 9193 postcodes | 129 at 10 to 9964 under 10 | 36 at 10 to 99157 under 10 | 193 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 BS24
BS22 BS29 BS23 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.