Planes overhead in LS29
Bradford and Leeds, West Yorkshire. 1,200 of its 1,246 postcodes measured, the ones in Bradford and Leeds, 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 LS29. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (47% of days): up to 53 a day; of its 1,200 postcodes, 166 at 10 to 99, 49 on an edge, 985 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (26% of days): up to 35 a day; of its 1,200 postcodes, 126 at 10 to 99, 38 on an edge, 1,036 under 10
- On a day it flies east (27% of days): up to 40 a day; of its 1,200 postcodes, 11 at 10 to 99, 28 on an edge, 1,161 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LS29 0209 postcodes | 209 under 10 | 209 under 10 | 2 at 10 to 99207 under 10 |
| LS29 17 postcodes | 7 under 10 | 7 under 10 | 7 under 10 |
| LS29 6251 postcodes | 65 at 10 to 9938 on an edge148 under 10 | 33 at 10 to 9913 on an edge205 under 10 | 251 under 10 |
| LS29 7256 postcodes | 101 at 10 to 9911 on an edge144 under 10 | 93 at 10 to 9925 on an edge138 under 10 | 9 at 10 to 9928 on an edge219 under 10 |
| LS29 8266 postcodes | 266 under 10 | 266 under 10 | 266 under 10 |
| LS29 9211 postcodes | 211 under 10 | 211 under 10 | 211 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.
2 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 LS29
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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.