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: Displays data from the past seven days, helping users track current activity on trails and roads, especially 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 offers obvious, useful benefits. Rather than a weekly heatmap, I would have thought a rolling average of the same day over the last 4 weeks would be a better way to indicate current trail activity levels.
Last Updated on 29 May 2026 by the5krunner
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