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Autumn 2026

August to October: three months of audience movement across the UK

Like-for-Like Growth
+25.5%

1.3 billion impressions across the autumn, ahead of 2025 on 90 of 92 days. The average day grew every month, and October set a new high.

Autumn 2025
1.03B
impressions, like-for-like
Autumn 2026
1.3B
impressions, like-for-like
Biggest Day
16.5M
3 Oct, Saturday
Days Ahead
90 / 92
August to October

Three Months of Growth

Average day by month, like-for-like

Every Day of the Autumn

Daily impressions, 1 August to 31 October, 2026 against the same dates in 2025

The Moments That Mattered

☀️
36.2°C and Still Ahead
August

London’s hottest day of the summer, Thursday 13 August, still delivered 13.0M impressions, +22% on last year. The next day climbed to 14.8M.

🏫
Back to School, Back to Busy
September

Weekday audiences rose every week after schools went back, from 12.8M a weekday in the first week to 14.9M by the end of the month.

👑
A New High: 16.5M
October

Saturday 3 October delivered 16.5M impressions, the highest daily figure in any edition of The Signal. Six October days passed 16M.

☔
Rain and Half-Term, No Dip
October

London’s wettest month of the autumn barely registered: a 15mm Friday delivered 16.2M, and half-term week was October’s strongest, averaging 15.6M a weekday.

Time of Day

Average impressions per hour, August to October 2026: weekdays against weekends

Across the autumn, weekdays settled into two peaks: lunchtime and 5pm, when school and work finish. Weekends run as one broad peak around 2pm, bigger than weekdays from 9am to 3pm.

For planners

What autumn means for your bookings

1

Audiences grew month by month: the average day rose from 13.2M in August to 14.0M in September and 15.1M in October.

2

Weekdays have two peaks, lunchtime and 5pm, and more than a third of weekday impressions land after 5pm.

3

Weekends are bigger from 9am to 3pm; weekdays take over from 4pm into the evening.

4

Heat, rain and school holidays came and went without a dip, and the five biggest days of the autumn all came in October.

Read the Monthly Editions

August 2026
+26.9%
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September 2026
+21.5%
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October 2026
+28.1%
Read the full edition →

Methodology

Data sourced from Data Jam's UK measurement network across retail, leisure, entertainment, transport, and hospitality venues. Each month compares only locations active in that month in both 2025 and 2026, and the autumn figures add the three months together. All impressions are raw audience counts; the only estimates are five incomplete collection dates (2–3 and 31 August 2025, 7–8 September 2026), each estimated from the average of the same weekday that month. Time-of-day averages use complete days only. Temperature and rainfall: London daily values (Open-Meteo archive).

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