Tell travelers when to go
Hourly foot traffic for museums, landmarks, parks and restaurants. Add the best time to visit to every guide page, and plan days that stay ahead of the crowds.
Start free API documentation1:26 · Example: Paris. Products in the video are fictional; the data is real BestTime data.
The problem
Guides say what, not when
Readers reach the Louvre at lunchtime, right in the rush.
Hundreds of places, by hand
No editor can check the crowd patterns of every place, every week.
Plans that ignore the crowds
An itinerary is only as good as the hour it sends people.
How BestTime helps
Hourly foot traffic forecasts for public venues, from anonymized mobile device signals from a sample of visitors, combined with weather, events and holidays. Busyness is a percentage of each venue’s own busiest hour.
Weekly forecast
GET /api/v1/forecasts/weekEvery hour of the week for one venue, as a percentage of its own busiest hour.
Venue Filter
GET /api/v1/venues/filterEvery venue in an area or collection, filtered by type, day, hours and busyness, each with its hourly curve. One call, sorted the way you need.
Itinerary Planner
POST /api/v1/itineraries/planOrders a list of venues into a route with a time for every stop: a night that builds up, or sights before their rush.
Widgets
No code: an embed snippetA 3D venue map and the busy hours on your own pages. No API key, and views use no credits.
What it brings
- A best time to visit and a weekly heatmap on every place page.
- Find what’s quiet in any time window, like museums on Saturday morning.
- Day plans with a time for every stop, scheduled before each place’s rush.
- No code needed for guide pages: embed a widget.
Typical teams
City guide publishers
A best time to visit on every place page.
Travel blogs
Week heatmaps with a free widget, no code.
Trip-planning apps
Day plans that stay ahead of the crowds.
Tour operators and concierges
Book tours and tables in the quiet hours.
Questions
Which places are covered?
Public venues worldwide, from museums and landmarks to parks, restaurants and shops. If a place is missing, create its forecast by name and address.
Does it stay up to date?
Forecasts are refreshed regularly, so a guide that reads them from the API or a widget always shows the current pattern.
Can I use it without developers?
Yes: widgets show a venue’s week on any site with an embed snippet. Each account includes one free widget.
Video transcript
Most travel guides tell you what to see in Paris. Very few tell you when to go.
So readers reach the Louvre at lunchtime, right in the rush. And no editor can check the crowd patterns of hundreds of places by hand, every week.
BestTime forecasts foot traffic for museums, landmarks, parks and restaurants, hour by hour, for every day of the week. So every place gets its own quiet and busy hours.
On a guide page, add the best time to visit, and the whole week as a heatmap. From the API, or with an embeddable widget, without writing code.
The Venue Filter finds what's quiet in a time window. For example: museums and landmarks in central Paris, on Saturday at nine AM, under half of their peak.
Or let the Itinerary Planner order the morning. Give it your must-sees, a day and a time window, and it schedules each stop before that place's rush. The Eiffel Tower at nine, when it's at a quarter of its peak.
In a travel app, that becomes a plan that stays ahead of the crowds, with a time for every stop.
Typical users are city guide publishers, travel blogs, trip-planning apps, tour operators and hotel concierges.
Start free, and try the planner on your own city in BestTime.
Learn the tools
Tutorial 5: Foot traffic widgets for your websiteTutorial 4: One venue, in detailTutorial 3: Venue Filter APIOther use cases
Nightlife appsSite selectionDOOH advertisingRetail & hospitality opsTourism & crowdsTry it on your own city
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