Strava Launches Night and Weekly Heatmaps for Enhanced Route Planning

Strava has introduced two new heatmap tools, Night and Weekly Heatmaps, to offer subscribers more precise route-planning options. These new heatmaps build upon Strava’s popular Global Heatmap, providing insights tailored to the time of day and recent activity.

Night Heatmap: Designed for evening or early-morning athletes, it highlights popular routes from sunset to sunrise, making it easier to find well-trafficked and safer areas for nighttime activity.

Weekly Heatmap: Displaying data from the past seven days, this feature helps users keep track of current activity on trails and roads, which is especially useful as conditions change with the seasons.

These new tools add to Strava’s existing GLOBAL and PERSONAL heatmaps. They can be accessed under the Maps tab, with options to filter by activity type or view multiple heatmaps simultaneously.

Take Out

It’s a great addition for some runners/riders and has obvious and useful benefits. Rather than a weekly heatmap, I would have thought a rolling average of the same day from the last 4 weeks would be a better way to indicate current activity levels of trails.