Planes overhead in WF4
Wakefield and Kirklees, West Yorkshire. All 1,269 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 WF4. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (47% of days): up to 14 a day; of its 1,269 postcodes, 222 at 10 to 99, 1,047 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (26% of days): up to 6 a day; of its 1,269 postcodes, 1,269 under 10
- On a day it flies east (27% of days): up to 1 a day; of its 1,269 postcodes, 1,269 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WF4 1238 postcodes | 5 at 10 to 99233 under 10 | 238 under 10 | 238 under 10 |
| WF4 2201 postcodes | 201 under 10 | 201 under 10 | 201 under 10 |
| WF4 3215 postcodes | 215 under 10 | 215 under 10 | 215 under 10 |
| WF4 4282 postcodes | 60 at 10 to 99222 under 10 | 282 under 10 | 282 under 10 |
| WF4 5190 postcodes | 45 at 10 to 99145 under 10 | 190 under 10 | 190 under 10 |
| WF4 6143 postcodes | 112 at 10 to 9931 under 10 | 143 under 10 | 143 under 10 |
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 WF4
WF2 WF1 WF5 WF12 WF3 WF6 WF13 WF7
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.