Planes overhead in LS26
Leeds and Wakefield, West Yorkshire. All 799 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 LS26. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (47% of days): up to 53 a day; of its 799 postcodes, 278 at 10 to 99, 38 on an edge, 483 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (26% of days): up to 32 a day; of its 799 postcodes, 291 at 10 to 99, 7 on an edge, 501 under 10
- On a day it flies east (27% of days): up to 16 a day; of its 799 postcodes, 293 at 10 to 99, 506 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LS26 0311 postcodes | 251 at 10 to 9924 on an edge36 under 10 | 257 at 10 to 997 on an edge47 under 10 | 285 at 10 to 9926 under 10 |
| LS26 113 postcodes | 13 under 10 | 13 under 10 | 13 under 10 |
| LS26 8340 postcodes | 17 at 10 to 9910 on an edge313 under 10 | 26 at 10 to 99314 under 10 | 8 at 10 to 99332 under 10 |
| LS26 9135 postcodes | 10 at 10 to 994 on an edge121 under 10 | 8 at 10 to 99127 under 10 | 135 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 LS26
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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.