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 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 campo vanishes almost twice as fast as a morning one.
Method and limitations
- Source: 1,180,934 availability observations collected by Padel Snipe (snapshot of 2026-07-03) 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.
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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.
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