❄️ [January visitors] One January holding both Easy days and Busy days?

One January holds days that reach the year's peak and days at the lightest end of the scale. The monthly average sits in the middle of the year, so picking dates off that average buys you the whole spread.

Read January by its monthly average and you read it wrong. The 62 days average Normal against Normal for the year — the same level. Inside, the month runs from Easy to Busy, 4 steps apart. 53 days come in below the yearly average.

The table lists the 40 January days still ahead, quietest first. The charts count all 62 days of the month. Every level on this page is a forecast of ours, not a record of how many people came through the gates.

• Jan 11MonComing of Age DayEasyroom↓
• Jan 10MonComing of Age DayEasyroom↓
• Jan 12TueFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 13WedFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 14ThuFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 17SunFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 19TueFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 20WedFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 21ThuFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 24SunFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 26TueFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 27WedFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 28ThuFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 31SunFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 11TueFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 12WedFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 13ThuFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 16SunFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 18TueFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 19WedFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 20ThuFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 23SunFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 25TueFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 26WedFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 27ThuFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 30SunFairly easyroom↓
• Jan 3SunNormalroom↓
• Jan 5TueNormalroom↓
• Jan 6WedNormalroom↓
• Jan 7ThuNormalroom↓
• Jan 8FriNormalroom↑
• Jan 9SatNormalroom↑
• Jan 15FriNormalroom↑
• Jan 16SatNormalroom↑
• Jan 18MonNormalroom↓
• Jan 22FriNormalroom↑
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• Jan 29FriNormalroom↑
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❄️ An ordinary average over an extreme month!

January averages Normal against Normal for the year — the same level. On the average alone, January looks like the middle of the year.

Counted by level, the days scatter across 5 of them. The lightest, Easy, takes 2 days; the heaviest, Busy, takes 1.

🎆 The heaviest day and the lightest, in one month!?

Ahead of today, the busiest day is Jan 2 (Sat) at Busy; the quietest is Jan 11 (Mon) at Easy. That is 4 steps.

Of the 32 busiest days in the year, 1 (3%) fall in January. That is all this month gives the year's peak, while 2 days sit at the lightest level. The turn of the year gets its own count in new year crowds.

🤔 Does "January is quiet" cover the whole month?

53 days (85%) come in below the yearly average. The rest sit above it, and that group includes the Busy days.

January is not a quiet month; it is a month where quiet days and busy days live side by side. Pick your dates off the monthly average and you take the whole spread.

📅 Which weekday is the light one?

By weekday, the lowest is Tuesday at Fairly easy and the highest Saturday at Normal.

The 42 weekdays average Normal; the 20 weekend days Normal. Quietest first: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Inside one January, the weekday still changes what you get. crowds by weekday handles the pattern itself.

🧭 Choose the day, not the month!

January carries 4 public holidays. 41 nights pull room rates down and 21 push them up.

The question is not which month, but where inside January. We carry on picking quiet stretches in the quiet season.

• Dick Thomas Johnson / CC BY 2.0🌷[Going in April] Is Fairly easy the most common level in April?Sorted by level, April's 60 days pile up in Fairly easy with 35, while the thinnest band is Fairly busy with 2. None of the year's 32 peaks land here.
• Dick Thomas Johnson / CC BY 2.0🎆[Going in August] Is Sunday the lightest day of August?Of August's 62 days, 62 sit below the yearly average. Its 43 weekdays and 19 weekend days land on the same level. Counted day by day.
• Dick Thomas Johnson / CC BY 2.0🎁[December visitors] December runs from Normal to Packed — inside one month?December's 62 days split into a light block and a heavy one. With 0 public holidays, it still takes 8 of the year's 32 peak days. Counted day by day.
• Dick Thomas Johnson / CC BY 2.0🎓[Going in February] Is February the busiest month on plain weekdays?Ranked on plain weekdays, February tops the year. We cannot tell you why: graduation trips and Lunar New Year were both tested, and neither held.
• othree / CC BY 2.0🎐[Going in summer] July's weight gathers onto Saturday?July's 62 days average Easy, not above the yearly mark. The weight gathers on Saturday, and 62 days come in under the yearly average.
• othree / CC BY 2.0☔[Going in June] 60 of June's 60 days come in under the yearly average?June holds 0 public holidays and 0 of the year's 32 busiest days. It averages Fairly easy, with 60 days below the yearly average. Counted day by day.