Poll: In your experience, which is usually your busiest month of the year?
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neilmac
neilmac
España
Local time: 02:05
español al inglés
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Missing option Feb 24, 2023

Where's the "N/A or "Don't Know option? Some months are busier than others. January may be the least, but I've never really tried to quantify this kind of thing. Knowing my luck, the busiest month will turn out to be the one in which I plan to take some time off for the first time in ages. That would be June this year, when I hope to be able to take a couple of weeks holiday.

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Mariana Borio
Sławomira Kaczmarek
Ester Vidal
Eleanor Odhiambo
Peter Simon
Angie Garbarino
Nikolay Novitskiy
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 01:05
Miembro 2007
inglés al portugués
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Other Feb 24, 2023

There is no usually! It varies a lot year to year. Let’s see:

2022 – August
2021 – October
2020 – June
2019 – August
2018 – March
2017 – February
2016 – October
2015 – January


Philippe Etienne
Liena Vijupe
Sławomira Kaczmarek
Eleanor Odhiambo
Peter Simon
Kay Denney
 
Edith van der Have
Edith van der Have
Países Bajos
Local time: 02:05
Miembro 2016
inglés al neerlandés
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Usually, December ... Feb 24, 2023

... though it was really slow last year.

 
Philippe Etienne
Philippe Etienne  Identity Verified
España
Local time: 02:05
Miembro
inglés al francés
December Feb 24, 2023

because there is no option to claim the utter lack of seasonality in my specific language pair, customer base and specialties.
My busiest month of the year is the month when I make the most obscene amount of money - and pay the most tax.

Philippe


 
Ventnai
Ventnai  Identity Verified
España
Local time: 02:05
alemán al inglés
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October Feb 24, 2023

On average over the last five years, October has been the busiest month but August and March are usually good as well

Yetta Jensen Bogarde
 
Patricia Prevost
Patricia Prevost  Identity Verified
España
Local time: 02:05
inglés al español
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March or April Feb 24, 2023

It's different every year, but March and April tend to be the busiest months for me, together with November, perhaps.

 
Sławomira Kaczmarek
Sławomira Kaczmarek  Identity Verified
Reino Unido
Miembro 2007
inglés al polaco
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It varies, but it is usually in the spring or autumn Feb 24, 2023

I chose 'September', but come to think of it, March and April also tend to be busy. And then October/November.

 
Angie Garbarino
Angie Garbarino  Identity Verified
Local time: 02:05
Miembro 2003
francés al italiano
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In my case Feb 24, 2023

There is not a busiest month, it is very very random

Nikolay Novitskiy
Kevin Fulton
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Robert Rietvelt
John Fossey
Kay Denney
 
Yetta Jensen Bogarde
Yetta Jensen Bogarde  Identity Verified
Dinamarca
Local time: 02:05
Miembro 2012
inglés al danés
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October Feb 24, 2023

I took a look at my statistics and saw it was October.
However, there should have been an option 'It always varies'
because in the course of the years I never felt any pattern.


Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Kay Denney
 
May Feb 24, 2023

Average by month, as a percentage of my annual earnings, over the past 18 years (2005-2022):

9.41% - May
9.40% - March
9.15% - September
9.10% - October
8.91% - February
8.75% - April
8.49% - January
8.06% - November
8.01% - June
7.81% - July
7.27% - August
5.62% - December

June, July, August and December really means "holidays", which is not really surprising, while the other months are dictated more by
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Average by month, as a percentage of my annual earnings, over the past 18 years (2005-2022):

9.41% - May
9.40% - March
9.15% - September
9.10% - October
8.91% - February
8.75% - April
8.49% - January
8.06% - November
8.01% - June
7.81% - July
7.27% - August
5.62% - December

June, July, August and December really means "holidays", which is not really surprising, while the other months are dictated more by chance than anything else. Having said that, I work mainly with museums, which tend to prepare their summer exhibitions in about May and their winter shows in September.

Simon
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Pia Myeong-Jin Lampert
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Suiza
Local time: 02:05
Miembro 2023
inglés al alemán
Any month except July or August Feb 24, 2023

For me, it's very random, except for July and August. That's when a lot of people are on vacation.

Christopher Schröder
 


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