Why is there so much aircraft noise over Colognola and Campagnola?

Milan Bergamo's single commercial runway (10/28) points almost straight at Bergamo's southern districts, and the prevailing operating pattern is departures to the west on runway 28 — climbing directly over Colognola, Campagnola and Villaggio degli Sposi. Colognola's annual average has measured around 62 dB, above the 60 dB acoustic-zoning limit for two consecutive years, and roughly 5,800 residents across Colognola and Campagnola live above that threshold. Drop a pin on the map above to see the exposure at your exact address.

Which areas around Bergamo airport are quietest?

Areas off the east-west runway axis. Bergamo's Città Alta and most of the city centre sit north of the departure fan, and towns like Brusaporto (north of the eastern approach) hear aircraft at height rather than direct overflight. The loudest places are on the axis itself — Colognola, Campagnola and Azzano San Paolo to the west; Grassobbio, Cassinone and Bagnatica to the east. Use the pin-drop tool above to compare specific streets.

What changed with night flights at Orio al Serio in November 2024?

SACBO removed the discretion previously left to air traffic control and required departures after midnight to use runway 10, heading east over the sparsely populated Parco del Serio corridor instead of west over the city (runway 10 is also the preferential departure runway from 11 PM). Post-11 PM takeoffs toward Bergamo fell roughly 95% in a year — from about 700 to 35, and 26 of those 35 happened on a single radar-outage night in June 2025. Measured across the broader 11 PM – 7 AM window, night departures over the city fell about 70%, from over 1,000 to around 300.

Do planes fly over Bergamo city centre?

The centre (Città Bassa) sits off the runway axis, about 4 km north-north-west, so it is not under the main corridor. Historically its biggest grievance was late-night departures climbing over the southern districts toward the city; the November 2024 eastbound night rule removed most of those. Daytime runway 28 departures still track over the southern edge of the city — Colognola, Campagnola, Boccaleone — before turning.

Is Grassobbio loud from planes?

Yes. Grassobbio sits immediately east of the runway, under runway 28 final approach — the predominant arrival stream — and it now also takes the after-midnight runway 10 departures routed east under the November 2024 rule. A reference noise-monitoring station is located there. The pin-drop map above shows the hourly pattern for any Grassobbio address.

How do I complain about aircraft noise from Milan Bergamo Airport?

The airport operator SACBO publishes noise data in a monthly public bulletin and handles environmental matters through its noise-climate programme (milanbergamoairport.it, +39 035 326111). ARPA Lombardia runs the regional monitoring network around the airport, and ENAC is the national authority that can sanction carriers breaching the night noise-abatement rules.

Will the Bergamo airport expansion make noise worse?

That is the live fight. SACBO's development plan of roughly EUR 500 million targets 23.5 million passengers (up from 17.4 million in 2024), and during the 2026 public debate the mayors of Orio al Serio and Seriate demanded concrete environmental compensation. Separately, because monitoring has confirmed exceedances of the 60 dB zoning limit in Colognola and Campagnola, SACBO is legally required to deliver a noise containment and abatement plan, expected by the end of 2026.

Does the map include all Ryanair and cargo flights?

Yes — commercial traffic at Bergamo is effectively all tracked, so the heatmap and route-density layers reflect the real pattern, including Ryanair's schedule (this is its largest Italian base). Note that DHL moved its express-cargo hub to Malpensa and ended Bergamo operations by early 2022, so the heavy night-freighter era is over; residual cargo is around 23,000 tonnes a year.

Milan Bergamo Flight Path Noise Map – Milan Bergamo Airport (BGY)

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Aircraft noise around Milan Bergamo in October 2026

Loudest neighborhoods near Milan Bergamo: Colognola (Bergamo), Campagnola (Bergamo), Azzano San Paolo, Grassobbio, Orio al Serio (village). Quietest: Brusaporto, Bergamo Città Bassa (centre), Costa di Mezzate. Busiest around 2 PM local time averaging 428 flights/day. Source: Flight Path Noise monitoring data, 30 days to 2026-10-19.

Flights by hour · last 30 days

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Average daily traffic

428

flights / day · 12,826 total

Busiest hour

2 PM

peak 95 dB

Loudest hour

2 PM

peak 95 dB

Loudest residential area

Azzano San Paolo

71 dB avg · ~344 flights/day · Loud conversation

Sits just off the runway 28 departure end; hosts an ARPA/SACBO monitoring station (via XXIV Maggio) on the takeoff path

Does Milan Bergamo Airport have a curfew?

Partial — no outright curfew, but mandatory 11 PM – 6 AM noise rules, and after-midnight departures must head east, away from Bergamo.

Milan Bergamo operates 24 hours a day, so there is no formal night curfew. What it does have is a set of mandatory AIP noise-abatement limitations for the 11 PM – 6 AM window (with exceptions for adverse weather, special air traffic and safety), including an engine run-up ban and runway 10 as the preferential night departure runway — all enforced by ENAC, which can sanction non-compliant carriers. The big change came in November 2024, when operator SACBO removed the discretion previously left to air traffic control and required after-midnight departures to use runway 10, heading east over the sparsely populated Parco del Serio corridor instead of west over Bergamo’s southern districts. Post-11 PM takeoffs toward the city fell roughly 95% within a year (from about 700 to 35 — 26 of those during a single radar-outage night in June 2025), and departures over the city across the broader 11 PM – 7 AM night fell around 70%, from over 1,000 to about 300. Southern Bergamo still records roughly ten night movements a night, mostly arrivals and eastbound traffic, and local groups continue to campaign for a full night-flight stop. SACBO must also deliver a statutory noise containment and abatement plan by the end of 2026, triggered by confirmed exceedances of the 60 dB zoning limit in Colognola and Campagnola.

Milan Bergamo Airport (BGY/LIME) — Orio al Serio “Il Caravaggio” — sits closer to a major city centre than almost any comparable European airport. Its single commercial runway lies under 3 km from Bergamo’s southern districts, and Ryanair’s relentless schedule (this is the carrier’s largest Italian base) pushed it past 17.4 million passengers and roughly 110,000 movements in 2024, making it Italy’s third-busiest airport. The noise story is dominated by westward runway 28 departures climbing directly over Colognola and Campagnola, where the annual average has breached the 60 dB acoustic-zoning limit — Colognola measured around 62 dB — affecting roughly 5,800 residents. After years of resident pressure, SACBO changed course in November 2024, requiring after-midnight departures to head east toward the Parco del Serio instead of over the city; post-11 PM takeoffs toward Bergamo fell about 95% within a year. Meanwhile a ~EUR 500 million development plan targeting 23.5 million passengers has reopened the growth fight, with the mayors of Orio al Serio and Seriate demanding concrete environmental compensation during the 2026 public debate.

Which neighborhoods are quietest — and which aren’t

Everything commercial at Bergamo uses one runway — 10/28, 2,937 m of east-west asphalt (a short 778 m strip, 12/30, serves only light Aero Club aircraft). That single axis makes the noise geography unusually legible — you are either on the east-west line or you aren’t. Runway 28 operations point west toward Azzano San Paolo and Bergamo’s southern districts; runway 10 operations point east toward Grassobbio, Cassinone and Bagnatica.

Area	Aircraft noise	Why
Colognola (Bergamo)	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Under the runway 28 climb-out; ~62 dB annual average, above the 60 dB limit
Campagnola (Bergamo)	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Westward departure corridor; with Colognola, ~5,800 residents above 60 dB
Azzano San Paolo	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Just off the runway 28 departure end; monitoring station on the takeoff path
Grassobbio	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Under runway 28 finals and after-midnight runway 10 departures
Orio al Serio (village)	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Abuts the terminal and apron; constant ground and sideline noise
Cassinone (Seriate)	✈︎✈︎✈︎	Under the eastern approach path; dedicated monitoring station
Villaggio degli Sposi	✈︎✈︎	Further out on the westward corridor
Boccaleone (Bergamo)	✈︎✈︎	Northern edge of the departure fan as runway 28 traffic turns out
Bagnatica	✈︎✈︎	Extended eastern centerline under runway 28 arrivals
Seriate (centre)	✈︎✈︎	Just north of the approach corridor
Stezzano	✈︎✈︎	Under the widening runway 28 departure fan
Brusaporto	✈︎	North of the eastern centerline; arrivals at height
Bergamo Città Bassa	✈︎	Off the runway axis; largely relieved at night since Nov 2024
Costa di Mezzate	✈︎	Far out on the arrival track; aircraft at ~2,000 ft or higher

The practical read for house-hunters: the axis is everything. Two streets in southern Bergamo can differ dramatically depending on whether they sit under the climb-out line through Colognola or a kilometre north of it in Boccaleone. East of the airport, the approach corridor through Cassinone and Bagnatica is narrower but very consistent, because most arrivals come from that side. If you’re weighing an address anywhere in the band between Stezzano and Costa di Mezzate, drop a pin on the map above and check the actual counts.

Flight patterns and runway use

The long-standing prevailing pattern, documented by ARPA Lombardia’s monitoring layout, is departures to the west on runway 28 — over Azzano San Paolo, then Colognola, Campagnola and Villaggio degli Sposi — and arrivals predominantly from the east, descending over Bagnatica, Cassinone di Seriate and Grassobbio onto runway 28 finals. ICAO noise-abatement procedures and dedicated noise-abatement SID routings apply to all takeoffs and landings, with specific mandatory limitations in the 11 PM – 6 AM window.

The key operational change came in November 2024. The AIP had long designated runway 10 as the preferential night departure runway from 11 PM, but air traffic control retained discretion — and in practice hundreds of late-night departures still climbed west over the city each year. SACBO’s new rule removed that discretion for the deep night: departures after midnight must use runway 10, heading east toward the sparsely populated Parco del Serio corridor. The effect was immediate — post-11 PM takeoffs toward the city fell from roughly 700 in 2024 to 35 in January–November 2025, and 26 of those 35 happened on a single night (28–29 June 2025) when a radar outage forced an exception. Across the broader 11 PM – 7 AM night window, departures over the city dropped about 70%, from more than 1,000 to around 300.

One thing the map will not show is a night-freighter operation. Bergamo was for years a major DHL express-cargo hub with heavy overnight activity, but DHL relocated to Malpensa and ended Bergamo operations by early 2022; residual cargo is now around 23,000 tonnes a year. Today’s night movements are overwhelmingly passenger aircraft — late Ryanair rotations and early positioning flights.

When is it quietest?

Bergamo runs 24 hours, so the quiet comes from restrictions and schedule shape rather than a curfew:

11 PM – 6 AM: mandatory noise-abatement limitations apply (engine run-ups banned, runway 10 preferential for departures). After midnight, departures must head east — so for southern Bergamo the deep night is now dramatically quieter than before November 2024, while Grassobbio and the Parco del Serio side take the residual eastbound traffic. Southern Bergamo still records roughly ten movements a night, mostly arrivals.
6 AM – 9 AM: the heaviest departure bank of the day. Ryanair’s first wave leaves nearly simultaneously, so runway 28 climb-outs over Colognola and Campagnola come every couple of minutes.
Midday: sustained but steadier — the base’s aircraft are away on rotations.
Late afternoon – 11 PM: second peak as based aircraft return and fly evening rotations; arrival pressure over Cassinone and Bagnatica is highest here.

Local politics matter here too — groups in Bergamo continue to campaign for a full night-flight stop, and SACBO’s statutory noise containment and abatement plan (required because of the Colognola and Campagnola exceedances) is due by the end of 2026. The hourly profile for any address is on the map above.

How to check noise at your specific address

The map above answers “is this street loud?” in three steps:

Search your address or postcode in the bar at the bottom of the map.
Drop a pin — click the location marker that appears.
Read the noise report that opens in the sidebar: average daily noise (Leq), peak observed dB, flights per day passing within 2 km, and an hourly breakdown.

The Noise Heatmap layer (orange/red = louder) and the Route Density layer (purple/magenta = busier corridors) make Bergamo’s single-axis pattern obvious: one bright east-west band from Stezzano through the runway to Costa di Mezzate, brightest over Colognola and Azzano San Paolo to the west and Grassobbio and Cassinone to the east. Addresses even a kilometre or two off that band — including most of Bergamo’s centre and Città Alta — will usually land in the green zone.

Frequently asked questions

Why is there so much aircraft noise over Colognola and Campagnola?: Milan Bergamo's single commercial runway (10/28) points almost straight at Bergamo's southern districts, and the prevailing operating pattern is departures to the west on runway 28 — climbing directly over Colognola, Campagnola and Villaggio degli Sposi. Colognola's annual average has measured around 62 dB, above the 60 dB acoustic-zoning limit for two consecutive years, and roughly 5,800 residents across Colognola and Campagnola live above that threshold. Drop a pin on the map above to see the exposure at your exact address.
Which areas around Bergamo airport are quietest?: Areas off the east-west runway axis. Bergamo's Città Alta and most of the city centre sit north of the departure fan, and towns like Brusaporto (north of the eastern approach) hear aircraft at height rather than direct overflight. The loudest places are on the axis itself — Colognola, Campagnola and Azzano San Paolo to the west; Grassobbio, Cassinone and Bagnatica to the east. Use the pin-drop tool above to compare specific streets.
What changed with night flights at Orio al Serio in November 2024?: SACBO removed the discretion previously left to air traffic control and required departures after midnight to use runway 10, heading east over the sparsely populated Parco del Serio corridor instead of west over the city (runway 10 is also the preferential departure runway from 11 PM). Post-11 PM takeoffs toward Bergamo fell roughly 95% in a year — from about 700 to 35, and 26 of those 35 happened on a single radar-outage night in June 2025. Measured across the broader 11 PM – 7 AM window, night departures over the city fell about 70%, from over 1,000 to around 300.
Do planes fly over Bergamo city centre?: The centre (Città Bassa) sits off the runway axis, about 4 km north-north-west, so it is not under the main corridor. Historically its biggest grievance was late-night departures climbing over the southern districts toward the city; the November 2024 eastbound night rule removed most of those. Daytime runway 28 departures still track over the southern edge of the city — Colognola, Campagnola, Boccaleone — before turning.
Is Grassobbio loud from planes?: Yes. Grassobbio sits immediately east of the runway, under runway 28 final approach — the predominant arrival stream — and it now also takes the after-midnight runway 10 departures routed east under the November 2024 rule. A reference noise-monitoring station is located there. The pin-drop map above shows the hourly pattern for any Grassobbio address.
How do I complain about aircraft noise from Milan Bergamo Airport?: The airport operator SACBO publishes noise data in a monthly public bulletin and handles environmental matters through its noise-climate programme (milanbergamoairport.it, +39 035 326111). ARPA Lombardia runs the regional monitoring network around the airport, and ENAC is the national authority that can sanction carriers breaching the night noise-abatement rules.
Will the Bergamo airport expansion make noise worse?: That is the live fight. SACBO's development plan of roughly EUR 500 million targets 23.5 million passengers (up from 17.4 million in 2024), and during the 2026 public debate the mayors of Orio al Serio and Seriate demanded concrete environmental compensation. Separately, because monitoring has confirmed exceedances of the 60 dB zoning limit in Colognola and Campagnola, SACBO is legally required to deliver a noise containment and abatement plan, expected by the end of 2026.
Does the map include all Ryanair and cargo flights?: Yes — commercial traffic at Bergamo is effectively all tracked, so the heatmap and route-density layers reflect the real pattern, including Ryanair's schedule (this is its largest Italian base). Note that DHL moved its express-cargo hub to Malpensa and ended Bergamo operations by early 2022, so the heavy night-freighter era is over; residual cargo is around 23,000 tonnes a year.

Sources and further reading

Noise climate — SACBO S.p.A. (Milan Bergamo Airport)
Rumore — Aeroporto di Orio al Serio (monitoring network and acoustic zoning) — ARPA Lombardia
Milan Bergamo Airport — Wikipedia
Aeroporto di Orio, decolli notturni crollati — in un anno da 700 a 35 — BergamoNews
Aeroporto di Orio al Serio — meno rumore notturno sui quartieri a sud — Bergamo Tomorrow
Orio, nel piano di sviluppo il focus sulla sostenibilità — BergamoNews

Data updated 2026-10-19 — live ADS-B monitoring, rolling 30-day statistics (methodology). Article text revised 2026-07-17.

30 dB	Whisper
45 dB	Quiet residential
55 dB	Normal conversation
65 dB	Busy road
75 dB	Vacuum cleaner
85 dB	Heavy traffic
95 dB	Motorcycle nearby

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