Planes overhead in WF6
Wakefield, West Yorkshire. All 587 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 WF6. Across its postcodes, January to August 2026:
- On a day it flies west (47% of days): up to 19 a day; of its 587 postcodes, 529 at 10 to 99, 2 on an edge, 56 under 10
- On a day it flies both ways (26% of days): up to 10 a day; of its 587 postcodes, 28 at 10 to 99, 559 under 10
- On a day it flies east (27% of days): up to 4 a day; of its 587 postcodes, 587 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WF6 1305 postcodes | 254 at 10 to 9951 under 10 | 305 under 10 | 305 under 10 |
| WF6 2282 postcodes | 275 at 10 to 992 on an edge5 under 10 | 28 at 10 to 99254 under 10 | 282 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 WF6
WF10 WF1 WF7 LS26 WF2 WF8 WF3 WF4
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.