What is BestTime?
BestTime is an AI-powered platform that delivers foot traffic data and live busyness insights for public venues globally. It offers hourly forecasts, peak analysis, and real-time activity comparisons to help users understand visitor patterns at locations like restaurants, museums, and stores.
The service includes venue search capabilities with natural language queries and advanced filtering options based on foot traffic intensity, geography, time, ratings, and business types. Developers can integrate these features via API to build location-aware applications that recommend optimal times to visit or avoid crowds.
Features
- Hourly Predictions: Get relative foot traffic percentages (0–100%) for every hour of the week
- Peak Analysis: Automatically identify daily high points, quietest hours, and peak intensity
- Live Busyness: Compare real-time activity against the average to flag surges or quiet periods instantly
- Venue Search: Find and add any venue worldwide using natural language queries
- Advanced Filtering: Programmatically find venues based on foot traffic intensity, geography, day, hour, reviews, ratings, business types, and dwell time
Use Cases
- Discover venues to match user intent
- Forecast busy times for optimal visits
- Visualize foot traffic on heatmaps for area comparisons
- Build auto-curated city guides like 'busy bars near me'
- Avoid crowds at attractions and stores
- Schedule staff based on expected peaks
- Optimize occupancy with visitor pattern insights
- Time digital outdoor advertising campaigns
- Measure impact of promotions against historical baselines
FAQs
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What kind of foot traffic data is available?
BestTime provides relative foot traffic for public venues (e.g., bars, restaurants, supermarkets, malls, parks, beaches, museums, and other public places). Values are normalized from 0–100% relative to a venue’s peak activity. -
What countries are covered?
We provide forecasts (and where data density allows, live busyness) for venues across 150+ countries worldwide. -
Can I try the API for free?
Yes. Create a free test account to explore the API and website tools. No credit card required to start. -
What is a foot traffic forecast?
A forecast estimates how busy a venue will be for each hour of a day (and across the week) based on historical visitor patterns. Values are displayed as percentages from 0–100%, relative to the venue’s weekly peak. -
What is live data?
Live data indicates real-time activity expressed as a percentage, comparable to the forecasted baseline for the current local day and hour.
