Planes overhead in LS16
Leeds, West Yorkshire. All 1,029 of its postcodes measured, 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 LS16. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (47% of days): up to 56 a day; of its 1,029 postcodes, 21 at 10 to 99, 72 on an edge, 936 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (26% of days): up to 52 a day; of its 1,029 postcodes, 100 at 10 to 99, 77 on an edge, 852 under 10
- On a day it flies east (27% of days): up to 46 a day; of its 1,029 postcodes, 123 at 10 to 99, 88 on an edge, 818 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 west47% of days | Both ways26% of days | Flying east27% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| LS16 014 postcodes | 14 under 10 | 14 under 10 | 14 under 10 |
| LS16 5189 postcodes | 20 at 10 to 9929 on an edge140 under 10 | 55 at 10 to 9932 on an edge102 under 10 | 68 at 10 to 9942 on an edge79 under 10 |
| LS16 6252 postcodes | 1 at 10 to 9938 on an edge213 under 10 | 40 at 10 to 9933 on an edge179 under 10 | 48 at 10 to 9932 on an edge172 under 10 |
| LS16 7246 postcodes | 5 on an edge241 under 10 | 5 at 10 to 9912 on an edge229 under 10 | 7 at 10 to 9914 on an edge225 under 10 |
| LS16 8184 postcodes | 184 under 10 | 184 under 10 | 184 under 10 |
| LS16 9144 postcodes | 144 under 10 | 144 under 10 | 144 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.
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.
Near LS16
LS18 LS5 LS6 LS4 LS13 LS19 LS7 LS3
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.