Eight quarters, weighted separately
Same city,
different years
A five-ship Saturday is critical on Oxford Street and barely registers on London Road. Freshers fortnight is Bedford Place's biggest month and Westquay's quietest signal. Every driver in the model carries a weight per zone, so the calendar you get is the calendar of your street, not the city average.
Twelve months per zone, one bar per week · tap or hover any strip · the red tick is today
Oxford Street
Premium dining, five minutes from the cruise terminals
Lives on the cruise rhythm: 68 percent of calls land Friday to Sunday. Graduation lunches in July, Valentines and Mothering Sunday carry the spring.
Ocean Village
Marina terraces, the most weather-exposed floor in the city
Gusts above 22mph close the parasols here first. The May boat show on the marina and every warm bank holiday are the peaks; the scaffolding years proved how fragile footfall is.
Old Town & High Street
Independents on the Town Quay approach
Catches cruise foot traffic through Dock Gate 4 and the Friday and Saturday Bargate market. Seawork week in June 2027 fills it with marine trade accounts.
Bedford Place
The night-trade strip
Runs on the student calendar: freshers and welcome week are its Christmas, the exodus weeks its January. The Carlton Place market Sundays are its own micro-tide.
London Road
Neighbourhood restaurants on the university corridor
Graduation season books it solid; the marathon closes it for a morning in April. Student exodus hits harder here than anywhere except Bedford Place.
Above Bar & Guildhall
The events ground zero
Christmas market territory: six weeks of enormous footfall that grazes rather than books tables. Graduation ceremonies at the O2 Guildhall, Pride, Oktoberfest and the Moulin Rouge theatre run all land here.
Westquay
Chain dining on the retail floor
Follows retail and the cinema, not the port. The ice rink runs late October to January. Note the parking squeeze: the 450-space Portland Terrace car park next door shut for good in April 2026.
St Marys & Chapel
Matchday country
Twenty-three home fixtures, the Pompey derby at Sunday noon on 11 October, and the Mela's 30,000 in Hoglands Park in July. Between fixtures, the quietest quarter in the city.
Why the weighting matters
City-average advice is how venues get caught out. The Christmas market lifts Above Bar and drains lunch trade from the quarters either side of it for six straight weeks. A matchday fills Bedford Place at 5pm and empties it at 7:45. The model scores every one of those redistributions, per zone, per daypart.