Planes overhead in OL6
Tameside and Oldham, Greater Manchester. All 898 of its postcodes measured, January to August 2026.
From Manchester
Planes land and take off into the wind, so the weather decides which way Manchester flies, and that decides how many pass over OL6. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (70% of days): up to 29 a day; of its 898 postcodes, 376 at 10 to 99, 522 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (10% of days): up to 17 a day; of its 898 postcodes, 260 at 10 to 99, 638 under 10
- On a day it flies east (20% of days): up to 6 a day; of its 898 postcodes, 898 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 west70% of days | Both ways10% of days | Flying east20% of days |
|---|---|---|---|
| OL6 011 postcodes | 11 under 10 | 11 under 10 | 11 under 10 |
| OL6 6226 postcodes | 26 at 10 to 99200 under 10 | 11 at 10 to 99215 under 10 | 226 under 10 |
| OL6 7165 postcodes | 165 under 10 | 165 under 10 | 165 under 10 |
| OL6 8257 postcodes | 179 at 10 to 9978 under 10 | 121 at 10 to 99136 under 10 | 257 under 10 |
| OL6 9239 postcodes | 171 at 10 to 9968 under 10 | 128 at 10 to 99111 under 10 | 239 under 10 |
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 OL6
OL7 SK16 SK15 OL8 OL5 M34 SK14 OL4
The councils
Where these figures come from
Counted from community flight tracking, checked against the CAA's monthly totals for Manchester. 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.