Distance From Home by Day

I started frequent travel in 2009, and I started noticing that quite a few of my long-distance trips seemed to be in February. I was curious what day of the year I averaged the furthest distance from home, so I created a chart from my hotel data for the last twelve years (2009–2020).

The day of the year I’ve been furthest from home on average is February 12th.

Chart with January 1 through December 31 on the x-axis, and the average distance from home (2009 through 2020) on the y-axis. There are also sparklines for each year showing the distance from home for each day of the year. The peak average distance from home is on 12 February, with an average distance of 2628 miles or 4229 km.

Days with the Longest Average Distance

As I expected, my furthest travel days were all in mid-February. I had a secondary peak in late August/early September (peaking on August 31st), largely because I frequently end up in the Seattle area that time of the year.

Rank Day of Year Average Distance from Home
#112 February2 628 mi4 229 km
#213 February2 611 mi4 202 km
#311 February2 178 mi3 505 km
#414 February2 124 mi3 419 km
#531 August1 380 mi2 220 km

Where I’ve Been on February 12th

Chart with January 1 through December 31 on the x-axis, and the average distance from home (2009 through 2020) on the y-axis. There are also sparklines for each year showing the distance from home for each day of the year. The peak average distance from home is on 12 February, with an average distance of 2628 miles or 4229 km.

Places I’ve been on 12 February 2009–2020.

For eleven of the past twelve years, I woke up away from home:

Date Location Distance from Home
12 Feb 2009 Arlington, Texas
United States
874 mi 1 406 km
12 Feb 2010 Gondorf
Germany
4 220 mi 6 792 km
12 Feb 2011 Beavercreek, Ohio
United States 🏠
12 Feb 2012 Mililani, Hawaii
United States
4 452 mi 7 165 km
12 Feb 2013 Abilene, Texas
United States
1 008 mi 1 622 km
12 Feb 2014 Bridgeton, Missouri
United States
347 mi 558 km
12 Feb 2015 Tukwila, Washington
United States
1 964 mi 3 160 km
12 Feb 2016 Derby, Kansas
United States
727 mi 1 170 km
12 Feb 2017 Indianapolis, Indiana
United States
111 mi 179 km
12 Feb 2018 Sydney Airport (SYD)
Australia
9 404 mi 15 135 km
12 Feb 2019 Tokyo
Japan
6 529 mi 10 507 km
12 Feb 2020 Palmdale, California
United States
1 896 mi 3 051 km

Days I Never Left Home

In the last twelve years, there are six days of the year I’ve never woken up away from home:

Technical Details

I created the chart from an Excel spreadsheet of my hotel history, using my Python hotel-data-utils. I used Python’s pandas library to process the data and the Matplotlib library to generate the chart itself. I created the map with QGIS.

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