TheSkiathos Guide

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When will I be busy?

Set what you run and where you are. The tool remembers it, and answers for any date you pick.

The shape of today, hour by hour. The shape of this week, with the heaviest day named. The season, month by month, from measured temperatures. Every ferry, flight and cruise call landing on your date, each with its source. And then, in plain words, what to do about it.

18Hours the day chart covers
22Areas, by bus stop not postcode
2Kinds of number, never mixed
€0What this costs you

Read this before you trust a number

Measured means somebody published it and this page can point at the source: the air and sea temperatures, the rain days and the crowd words come from published climate and season data, and every ferry, flight and cruise time comes from an operator timetable that carries its own evidence.

Estimated means this page worked it out from a structural model of the island, built from the bus timetable and the 17:00 beach crush, the charter flight week, Greek meal times, the season and the meltemi, and it is the shape of the island's day rather than your business's traffic, because nobody anywhere publishes that.

Set this once. This device remembers it.

Picks which of the model's five day curves fits you.

No postcode box. The whole island is 370 02, so a postcode would tell us nothing. On Skiathos your address is a bus stop.

Defaults to today.

Not remembered. It starts off every visit.

Today, hour by hour

Two hours change what an owner does, and both are on this chart. At 17:00 the buses fill and the beaches empty toward the town. Dinner does not start until 20:00, and a taverna that is empty at 19:30 is not failing.

The shape of your day

08:00 to 01:00 · Estimated from the model · Not a count of covers

This week

Seven real dates, Monday to Sunday, around the day you picked. The bars are the model. Underneath them, where the published airport timetable reaches, is the measured flying week, kept separate so you can see which is which.

The shape of your week

Monday to Sunday · Estimated from the model · Measured flight counts shown separately

This season

This part is not modelled at all. The air and sea temperatures, the rain days and the crowd words are published figures for Skiathos, month by month. It is the one section of this page where the numbers are simply true.

Air and sea, month by month Measured

Degrees Celsius · Published climate and season data · No model involved

Who is arriving

Boats, planes and cruise calls landing on the date you picked, from published operator timetables. Where a sailing exists but its running days cannot be established, it is listed separately as unknown rather than pinned to your date.

Arrivals on your date

Published timetables · Seats are a ceiling, never a headcount

What to do about it

The same numbers, turned into prep. Every line is a multiple of your own normal or a time on a clock. None of it is a count of your covers, because that number does not exist anywhere.

Your prep list for this date

Estimated shape · Multiples of your own normal · Never absolute covers

How this works, and where it is weak

Worth two minutes before you roster staff on it.

What the model is built from

The shape of the season from published climate and opening data. The charter week, where Friday is the peak arrival day. The bus timetable and the 17:00 beach crush. Greek meal times, so dinner peaks at 21:00 and not at 19:00. And the meltemi, which is northerly, so it pushes beach trade onto the south and west coasts.

What it is not built from

Any business's footfall, card takings, covers or bookings. None of that is published for venues at this scale and this page has none of it. Nothing here is fitted to observed data, because no observed data exists.

Why arrivals are kept out of the charts

The timetables publish how many seats a ferry or an aircraft has, not how many people were on it. A September ferry with 1,400 seats is not a September ferry with 1,400 people. Feeding a ceiling in as a headcount would invent thousands of visitors, so the arrivals sit in their own section instead.

The honest weaknesses

There are five day curves and no more, so a car hire desk and a hotel front desk borrow a curve that describes the street rather than their counter, and the page says so where that happens. Bus stop numbers for a handful of areas are disputed between published lists. And the model has one lever for wind, on or off, when a real meltemi has strength and direction.

If you hand over a fortnight of your own till receipts, this model can be checked against them and corrected. Until somebody does that, every modelled figure on this page is an estimate of shape and carries the label.

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