Planes overhead in WF12

Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield, West Yorkshire. All 820 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 WF12. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:

On a day it flies west (47% of days): up to 17 a day; of its 820 postcodes, 726 at 10 to 99, 94 under 10
On a day it flies both ways (26% of days): up to 8 a day; of its 820 postcodes, 820 under 10
On a day it flies east (27% of days): up to 1 a day; of its 820 postcodes, 820 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.

Planes overhead from Leeds Bradford in WF12, by postcode sector and the way Leeds Bradford flies
Sector	Flying west47% of days	Both ways26% of days	Flying east27% of days
WF12 0214 postcodes	208 at 10 to 996 under 10	214 under 10	214 under 10
WF12 7244 postcodes	156 at 10 to 9988 under 10	244 under 10	244 under 10
WF12 8183 postcodes	183 at 10 to 99	183 under 10	183 under 10
WF12 9179 postcodes	179 at 10 to 99	179 under 10	179 under 10

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 WF12

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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.

How the planes are counted