Quietest times / Ytri Tunga
The quietest time to visit Ytri Tunga — measured
The road past Ytri Tunga is quietest before 09:00 and again after 21:00, carrying under a third of its 16:00 peak — about 5.4× less traffic than mid-afternoon.
Hour by hour
Average vehicles per hour on the Snæfellsnes road through Staðarsveit, through the summer. Icelandic time throughout.
| Hour | Vehicles/hour |
|---|---|
| 06:00 | 3 |
| 07:00 | 10 |
| 08:00 | 25 |
| 09:00 | 60 |
| 10:00 | 92 |
| 11:00 | 115 |
| 12:00 | 124 |
| 13:00 | 122 |
| 14:00 | 123 |
| 15:00 | 132 |
| 16:00 | 136 |
| 17:00 | 127 |
| 18:00 | 108 |
| 19:00 | 82 |
| 20:00 | 53 |
| 21:00 | 35 |
| 22:00 | 23 |
How this was measured, and what it cannot tell you
Vegagerðin counts vehicles every ten minutes at Hraunsmúli í Staðarsveit, 5.4 km away, on the Snæfellsnes road through Staðarsveit. This page averages 202 days of those counts by hour of day.
What it cannot tell you: how many people are there. A coach is one vehicle and fifty visitors, so a road that is quiet by traffic can still have a full viewing platform. The counter is on the road, not at the site, so it sees everyone driving past — including people going somewhere else entirely. And it describes a normal summer day, not tomorrow: weather and a cruise-ship arrival both beat any average.
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