🌻 [Summer break visitors] Is 100% of the break below the yearly average?
The summer break carries no weight in our model at all. We went looking for the effect in the measured data and could not find one. Only the Obon week inside it spikes; the rest of the break lines up like any ordinary stretch of weekdays.
We counted every day of the summer break inside the forecast: 84 days. The window averages Easy against Normal for the year, 2 levels apart. 84 days, or 100%, come in below the yearly average. The quietest is Easy, the busiest Normal.
Of the 42 days still ahead, the table lists the 40 quietest. The levels are what our numbers expect, a separate thing from how many people walked in that day.
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- Aug 29SunEasyroom↓
- Aug 31TueEasyroom↓
- Aug 2MonFairly easyroom↓
- Aug 7SatFairly easyroom↑
- Aug 9MonFairly easyroom↓
- Aug 10TueFairly easyroom↑
- Aug 12ThuFairly easyroom↓
- Aug 13FriFairly easyroom↑
- Aug 15SunFairly easyroom↓
- Aug 21SatFairly easyroom↑
- Aug 23MonFairly easyroom↓
- Aug 28SatFairly easyroom↑
- Aug 30MonFairly easyroom↓
- Aug 11WedMountain DayNormalroom↓
🌻 The break carries no weight at all!
The window averages Easy against Normal for the year, 2 levels apart. Of its 84 days, 84 land below the yearly average.
We looked for the effect across the measured years and it was not there, so the model adds nothing for the summer break. "School is out, so the park fills up" does not hold across this window.
📊 The distribution leans to the light end!?
Counted by level, 78 days (93%) sit in the three lightest bands. The thickest single band is Easy with 55 days.
The three heaviest bands hold 0 days (0%). Busy dates do exist here, but they are not what the window is made of. It is not only the average that sits low; the shape of the distribution does too.
🎆 Is the Obon week the only spike?
The window is 12% of the calendar. Of the 32 busiest days in the year, 0 (0%) fall inside it.
Ahead of today the busiest date is Aug 11 (Wed) at Normal. The peak belongs to the week families travel home, not to the break as a whole. That week alone is picked up in the Obon week.
📅 The weekday is what moves the level!
By weekday, Thursday is quietest at Easy and Monday busiest at Fairly easy.
Quietest first: Thursday, Friday, Sunday. Inside the summer break, the level moves with the weekday, not with the holiday.
The order of the weekdays does not change once the break starts. That order gets its own treatment in crowds by weekday.
🏨 Plenty of nights still get cheaper!
Within the window, 26 nights push room rates up and 58 nights pull them down.
For such a long holiday, the falling nights are the ones that outnumber the rest. How to read rates is in park crowds and room rates; the month-level view is in August crowds.
Last updated: 2026-09-03
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