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Re: Show HN: The best time to visit any city

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Post by ignostic »

fireworks10 wrote: post #54
xxXXxx- wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! There's a few cities I visit very often but I ONLY visit in the "off season." Everything is much cheaper, things don't sell out, I don't get bothered by stupid events I have no interest in, parking is free or reduced price, I don't have to sit in traffic, and crowds are non-existent. I'd rather avoid crowds than pretty much any other factor other than maybe price.

http://offpeak.io the project my team has been working on aims to solve this exact problem. We help travelers avoid peak season, and peak dates that are often associated with large business conferences.

That's great! May I ask where you're getting your data?

Re: Show HN: The best time to visit any city

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Post by ignostic »

s_kilk wrote: post #64

A tiny bit of feedback... > June – August is slow/unreported season for tourism in Edinburgh, so lodging and other accommodations may cost as much as usual. This is... odd. In August, Edinburgh has the legendary (Fringe) Festival, a month in which the cities population quadruples, making it easily the most intense month of the year for tourism. Maybe the dataset requires some manual tweaking?

Yeah, you've uncovered one where the average month in Google was not reported. Generally that means few people searching. In a few cases, sadly, that may be because the hotels are all full and there's no point to searching.

As I've said elsewhere, I think the solution to this is better data on travel volume. I have a lead thanks to this thread on some better data, which is very exciting for me and exactly what I was hoping for in HN.

Re: Show HN: The best time to visit any city

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Post by ignostic »

clishem wrote: post #63

Something fishy is going on here: https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-cuba/ https://imgur.com/YlM3zda.png But really great idea!

Ooops... looks like the scale on my graph somehow got thrown off. Thanks for the find! I've fixed Cuba manually but will go back through looking for the source of this problem.

Re: Show HN: The best time to visit any city

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Post by zzleeper »

Following the feedback from others, a few things seem odd (for Peru):

- I tried it with Lima-Peru and it actually suggested a bad time to visit the city: https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-lima-p... . The weather on winter is quite humid ( http://www.generaccion.com/noticia/imagenes/grandes/188862-2... )so its not the best time to be there, compared to the summer. - Also, on the mountains the season to avoid is the rain season, because it really rains (jan-feb). - Finally, as others pointed, the choice of locations is a bit odd. There are a few smaller towns but for instance Cuzco or Macchu Picchu are not there

Re: Show HN: The best time to visit any city

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Post by ignostic »

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #47

Hey, this is really useful! I'll bookmark it and probably use it. A few bugs/glitches, though: - The Celsius temperature graph for Barcelona ( https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-barcel... ) doesn't show temperatures above 25ºC, so every temperature above that gets cropped to 25. The scale should probably be adapted to the data. - "The busiest month for tourism in Barcelona, Spain is May, followed b…

Very helpful, thank you. I will look into these.

Re: Show HN: The best time to visit any city

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Post by ignostic »

fwx wrote: post #44

This is very cool. Long shot but any chance you can blog about the algorithm used? Or open source the same?

I'm not sure many people would be interested, but I'd have no problem doing a write up with the relevant source. I'll try to get to it next week after fixing all these bugs people are finding.
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