Annual report · 2026 edition
What time do padel slots disappear?
We continuously monitor padel court availability across Europe. This report analyses 1,180,934 observations covering 63,506 slot types across 1,457 clubs. The largest public study of padel booking pressure ever run.
The key number
An 8pm slot disappears 43% faster than an 8am slot.
The later the hour, the shorter a free slot survives: our availability index drops from 33.0 observation passes on average for an 8am slot to 18.8 for an 8pm slot.
How long a free slot survives, by hour (5 countries, local time)
Index = average number of observation passes (~3h apart) where the slot was still bookable. Shorter bar = slot gone sooner.
Evening pressure, country by country
Survival gap between a morning slot (8-11am) and an evening slot (6-9pm) within each country. The indicator is internal to each market, so it compares fairly.
| Country | Evening slots analysed | An evening slot disappears… |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 3,002 | 46% faster |
| United Kingdom | 923 | 30% faster |
| Spain | 3,664 | 20% faster |
| France | 515 | 17% faster |
| Belgium | 361 | at the same pace (relaxed market) |
Italy has the most contested evenings in Europe: an evening slot vanishes almost twice as fast as a morning one.
Method and limitations
- Source: 1,180,934 availability observations collected by Padel Snipe (snapshot of 3 July 2026) from public booking platforms.
- Survival index: number of observation passes (~3 hours apart) where a slot type (club × time × duration) was still bookable. Lower index = slot gone sooner.
- Scope: only the 5 deep-coverage countries (ES, IT, GB, FR, BE) and 60/90-min slots. Hours converted to local time (summer offsets). City rankings are not published: samples too small.
Reuse this data (CC-BY 4.0)
These figures are free to reuse, commercially included, with attribution to “Padel Snipe” and a link to this page. The full clubs dataset is available on the open-data atlas.
Why we know these numbers
Padel Snipe books courts automatically the second they open. This continuous availability monitoring is what produces this data.
Discover Padel Snipe →