Here in Europe cities typically become emptier in summer cause everyone is on holiday. Obviously the opposite is true for tourist spots.

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  2. Thanksgiving Weekend. People are gone for the holidays and the roads are nice and clear.

  3. Actually right about now. Being a small isolated town just off a (fairly) major highway, the only people in the area tend to be locals or people driving through on their way north or to the coast. This means it’s busier during winter and summer but spring and fall are pretty sleepy. Still not much going on but the difference is noticeable.

  4. Summer. It gets extremely hot here and people are generally just not out milling around in the heat. We have a lot of snow birds and university students as well who aren’t here during the summer months. Being an hour drive away from the beach a lot of people will split if they can.

  5. Nope, there’s always people going to work and there’s always tourists to confuse the Chrysler Building for the Empire State.

  7. While Colorado is a hot vacation spot year round, Colorado Springs has no skiing, so it’s significantly less crowded in the winter than the summer

  8. Aside from winter, it depends on where you are based.

    Ohio: only time it is noticeable is Jan, but the only time that I would notice a lot of people was the fall for football that takes over the city.

    Chicago: there was always some amount of people. Most of the tourism is in the summer, but I just noticed that because I lived in a tourist area. The days before the marathon everything around me was blocked off so it was nice to walk around with no one on the roads.

    I don’t follow the NFL much, but I will say that the city gets pretty empty during bears/packers.

    After baseball season, I notice that there often is less people on the red line.

  9. Reno/Tahoe: the off season, so, fall to late fall, and spring.

    Bay Area: I don’t think it is ever empty, but this will be my first full year back in a while, so, I’ll see how fire season looks.

  10. I grew up in a somewhat warm and touristy place, so it’s absolutely packed with visitors in the winter. It never really truly gets cold here.

    In the summer though? Hot as hairy balls. Only the people who grew up with it go outside in the summer, and certainly not many visitors. It’s kind of nice if you’re used to the heat though. Absolutely no lines at the store.

  13. Thanksgiving! Even more than Christmas I’d say. LA has a lot of transplants so if you go on the west side on Thanksgiving you’ll see empty streets, it’s wild. Less so on the east side though.

  17. Winter, well at least in my neighborhood where we have a lot of snowbirds who live in Florida from November until May.

  18. The population of my collage town halves in the summer as people go home, vacation, or internships.

  19. I live in a vacation area. Population increases like 10 fold in the summer and is dead in the winter

  21. It’s called all year and it’s called the midwest and we love it.

    The closest we’d come I guess is in May/June in college towns when they do become a bit quieter for a few months and the campuses are ghost towns until the summer kids arrive.

    In other places you don’t really notice.

  22. Burning Man.

    It’s a festival in the desert where people take a lot of drugs, have sex, build weird sculptures, and have a ritual that’s oddly similar to The Wicker Man.

    A surprising number of Silicon Valley’s wealthy, educated, and powerful people attend. I’m talking about CEOs, executives, top programmers, investors.

  23. Usually from June to early October. The snowbirds are gone, the traffic is lighter and you don’t have to make reservations at most restaurants. It’s hot as hell though and not real pleasant to be outside.

  24. Summer in central Texas, it’s so consistently hot outside that most people are rushing to stay indoors, visiting somewhere cooler, or trying to find some water they can soak in (that’s mostly the newbies there’s not a lot of water here.)

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