Planes overhead in SK2
Stockport, Greater Manchester. 590 of its 599 postcodes measured, the ones in Stockport, 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 SK2. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (70% of days): up to 266 a day; of its 590 postcodes, 5 at 100+, 585 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (10% of days): up to 168 a day; of its 590 postcodes, 5 at 100+, 21 at 10 to 99, 26 on an edge, 538 under 10
- On a day it flies east (20% of days): up to 90 a day; of its 590 postcodes, 36 at 10 to 99, 35 on an edge, 519 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SK2 5265 postcodes | 265 under 10 | 10 on an edge255 under 10 | 4 at 10 to 9917 on an edge244 under 10 |
| SK2 6179 postcodes | 1 at 100+178 under 10 | 1 at 100+21 at 10 to 9916 on an edge141 under 10 | 28 at 10 to 9918 on an edge133 under 10 |
| SK2 7142 postcodes | 142 under 10 | 142 under 10 | 142 under 10 |
| SK2 94 postcodes | 4 at 100+ | 4 at 100+ | 4 at 10 to 99 |
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.
4 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 SK2
SK1 SK3 SK7 SK6 SK4 SK5 SK8 M19
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.