Spread visitors over time and place
Hourly foot traffic for sights, museums and parks across the city. Point visitors to places in their quiet hours, and publish honest best-time advice.
Start free API documentation1:21 · Example: New York City, Manhattan’s top 40 sights. Products in the video are fictional; the data is real BestTime data.
The problem
The same hotspots, at the same hours
Crowds build up at a few places while others stay quiet.
Counters only at some sites
The rest of the city is a blind spot.
Advice that ages
Static "best time to visit" text goes out of date.
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.
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.
Weekly forecast
GET /api/v1/forecasts/weekEvery hour of the week for one venue, as a percentage of its own busiest hour.
Predicted live data
POST /api/v1/forecasts/liveAn estimate for the current hour, from real-world signals such as weather, events and holidays: busier or quieter than usual.
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.
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.
What it brings
- Quiet alternatives right now: sights in their quiet hours.
- Best-time-to-visit pages and widgets that stay current.
- Busier-than-usual alerts from predicted live data.
- Off-peak routes from the Itinerary Planner.
Typical teams
Destination marketing organizations
Visitor pages with honest timing advice.
Museums and attractions
Nudge visitors to quieter hours.
City and park authorities
See the whole city, not only sites with counters.
Questions
Does it count visitors?
No. Each place’s busyness is relative to its own busiest hour, which is what visitors need to choose a time.
Can visitors see it without an app?
Yes: widgets show a venue’s week on any page, and each account includes one free widget.
Video transcript
Saturday, two PM in New York City. Half of the top forty sights are near their busiest hour, all at once.
Visitors queue, neighborhoods fill up, and counters only cover a few sites. And best-time advice on visitor pages goes out of date.
BestTime forecasts foot traffic for sights, museums and parks across the city, hour by hour, for every day of the week.
So you can see where, and when, to send people. At ten AM on the same Saturday, two thirds of those sights are still in their quiet hours.
One Venue Filter call finds the sights in their quiet hours for any day and hour, so a visitor page can suggest them instead.
Give every attraction page its own best time to visit, from the API or with a widget, and it stays current.
Predicted live data flags places that are busier than usual today, based on weather, events and holidays.
And the Itinerary Planner builds a route that reaches each sight before its rush.
Typical users are tourism boards, museums and attractions, and city and park authorities.
Start free, and see your own city hour by hour in Radar.
Learn the tools
Tutorial 5: Foot traffic widgets for your websiteTutorial 2: Radar: filter any cityOther use cases
Nightlife appsCity guides & travelSite selectionDOOH advertisingRetail & hospitality opsTry it on your own city
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