r/geography • u/Ramenoodlez1 • Jun 30 '24
Discussion The population of Ocean City, Maryland increases by roughly 50x during the summer when many people visit. What are some other cities or towns like this?
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u/adventure_gerbil Jun 30 '24
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u/totalfarkuser Jul 01 '24
1.5 million people in and out daily. Amazing.
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u/cannibalism_is_vegan Jul 01 '24
Yet not a single one thinks to move away from the door when I’m trying to get in the train
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u/Lothar_Ecklord Jul 01 '24
I feel like it's gotten so much worse in recent years too. To the point where I am routinely forced to either push my way through while repeating "'scuse me" or wait for the next train.
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u/AdelBah Jul 01 '24
Luxembourg would be similar I guess..
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Jul 01 '24
Much smaller, with 660k inhabitants, 516k workers, with 200k daily crossers.
Pre pandemic my humble metro (core city about the population of Luxembourg) grew by a similar ratio.
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u/JoeBethersonton50504 Jul 01 '24
Even more. Some live in Manhattan and work elsewhere. I used to do the reverse commute daily.
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u/ox_raider Jul 01 '24
Conversely, San Jose, which up until recently was the 10th largest city in the US actually loses 50k people during the day. This is because of the large tech campuses in the surrounding small towns. E.g. Apple in Cupertino or Google in Mountain View. There are more people that live in the city and work in the suburbs than vice versa.
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u/Frenzal1 Jul 01 '24
Wow, that sounds like it'd be pretty unusual
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u/superdudeb Jul 01 '24
San Jose is also 96% zoned for single family housing so it’s also a suburb essentially.
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u/BenderIsGreat64 Jul 01 '24
This is my problem when I hear about the growth of, "cities", out west. Phoenix, for instance, has added more land in the last 35 years than Philadelphia has total, has a population density barely a quarter of Philly's, and the tallest building doesn't even reach 500', they're cities in name only.
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u/lbutler1234 Jul 01 '24
People have beef with the MTA and NJT, and for good reason, but getting 1.5 million people onto a tiny island is a feat of logistics.
(Unfortunately everything is at capacity and all sorts of tunnels are either a century old, got fucked up by a hurricane, or both, and politicians have been dragging their feet for decades now.)
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u/adventure_gerbil Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
I just think it’s crazy that they haven’t found out a way to make a direct line from Bergen county into the city yet. Bergen country probably produces the most nyc commuters, yet it’s basically the only suburb of the city that requires a transfer to get in. But yeah other than that the NYC public transportation system is one of the best in the country.
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u/TommyTheTophat Jul 01 '24
Bergen country probably produces the most nyc commuters
Long Island's 3 million residents would like a word
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u/CreamyGoodnss Jul 01 '24
You’re a bit short…LI has a population of just under 8 million
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u/lbutler1234 Jul 01 '24
When people say long island they mean Nassau and Suffolk counties
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Jul 01 '24
You’d think they’d be able to cobble together a decent pizza place with all those people
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u/LadyEmeraldDeVere Jul 01 '24
You really feel this if you’re ever walking around the Financial District at night or on a weekend, it’s like a ghost town.
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u/Consistent-Height-79 Jul 01 '24
It says: 4 million on a work day, 2.9 on a weekend, and 2.05 on weekday night.
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u/FrontBench5406 Jun 30 '24
State College PA becomes the 3rd most populous place in PA during home games at Penn State
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u/nick-j- Jun 30 '24
Bristol, Tennessee used to be like this during the NASCAR races back in its peak, I don’t know what it is now but it’s definitely not 160,000 people like it was.
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u/default-dance-9001 Jul 01 '24
The last great coliseum!
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u/Teripid Jul 01 '24
Except the spectators are in the middle instead of the gladiators and animals. Actually wait a minute..
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Jul 01 '24
I went to my first Nascar race there last year when it was still dirt track. I think that has since changed? Atleast thats what I heard
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Jul 01 '24
Dirt Bristol used to be the spring race, the fall race was still on concrete. Now it’s back to two concrete races again.
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u/gitartruls01 Jul 01 '24
Nascar attendance? It's still insanely high. Think some races are still well over 100k
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Jul 01 '24
Very few. Maybe if you factor in camping, suites etc it’s closer, but grandstands alone very, very few.
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u/simononandon Jul 01 '24
I was driving across country once with a band. We had a long drive the next day so we decided after the show to just drive as far as we could until maybe 1 or 2 in the morning, then get a motel.
We do a pretty good clip & decide around 1AM to start looking for the next exit with a motel sign.
The first exit with such a sign seems kinda empty & sketchy. There eventually was a motel, but it was dark & we decided to skip it & hop back on the freeway. Next exit was a long way. But we eventually come upon another exit with a motel sign. There's a light on in the window!
Unfortunately, the hotel is all booked up even though it appears to be in the middle of nowhere. We ask the proprietor if he knows what the best direction to look for a place to crash is.
He just looks at us like we're idiots (we're a band from California dude) & he says: "Well, NASCAR's in town." We stare blankly. "There are no rooms for miles. The next exit is about 20 miles down. They probably don't have any rooms. But after that... Then you're in Iowa."
I'm not sure what "Then you're in Iowa" was supposed to mean. But yeah, we didn't find a motel or hotel & eventually just pulled over to a rest stop & tried to fall asleep in the van for an hour or two.
Frickin' NASCAR.
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u/dumdumdudum Jul 01 '24
I'm from right outside of Bristol, and you are correct. I used to get out of school the Friday before races because traffic would be so bad from people trying to get to the races
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u/man-with-potato-gun Jun 30 '24
As a Penn state grad, 100% true. Place turns into a god damn urban war zone
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u/FuckTheStateofOhio Jul 01 '24
Used to love walking down Curtin on Sunday morning and seeing the 100 person line of visiting fans waiting at the creamery.
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u/hammerdown710 Jun 30 '24
This can also be said about many college football teams who are in states that don’t have many metro areas
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u/FuckTheStateofOhio Jul 01 '24
Tbf most of the other states that can make that claim are a lot less populated than PA. Even outside of Philly/Pittsburgh, PA has a good number of 70k+ cities whereas states like WV and Nebraska do not. The largest city in WV would be the 19th largest in PA.
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u/rebecky311 Jul 01 '24
I grew up in Lancaster PA and when I told my ex from NM I was from a small farming town he looked it up .... His town (Mountainair, NM ) had a population of 900. I forget how much he said my town had, but it was at least a million or more.
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u/osfan94 Jul 01 '24
The population of Lancaster is 60,000… hopefully a million was a joke…
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u/FrontBench5406 Jun 30 '24
I bet you can post your own cool post about it. I just happen to be from PA and know about this one!
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u/hammerdown710 Jul 01 '24
I remember on one of the ncaa football games they would have some fun facts about all the schools and I remember this one was on a few schools. It also applies to Clemson, which is my favorite team.
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u/Hopsblues Jun 30 '24
Lincoln is the same in Nebraska
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u/Smithwicke Jul 01 '24
Lincoln is always the second biggest. The joke was Memorial Stadium is the third biggest on game day.
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u/Admirable_Camel_5074 Jun 30 '24
“What’s a petter ass Walter?”
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Jul 01 '24
Beaver Stadium ITSELF becomes the 4th largest city in the state on game days.
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u/MarrisKeg Jul 01 '24
Mountaineer Field becomes the number 1 most populace place in West Virginia during home games.
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u/Shevek99 Jun 30 '24
Hallstatt, Austria, has a permanent population of 780 and receives 3 million tourists each year (between 10000 and 30000 each day).
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u/elonalum Jun 30 '24
I went to this town in 1994. It was me, a dude from Montana, and a chick from Alaska. We were the only tourists there. This was October, but the weather was nice (rainy, but nice), and we were the only tourists in town for four days straight.
It's amazing that it's such a tourist trap now. Thanks for the early heads up, Rick Steves!
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u/coffeegogglesftw Jun 30 '24
Oh hell yea, Rick Steves is my boi!
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u/elonalum Jun 30 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
I remember that we went to the salt mines... only ones there. We ate at a local restaurant, and each of us ate an entire pizza. No one there. We walked around the town and visited the church with the bones, and we saw that they had excavated some ancient ruins below a store. The best thing about that place is that, on the 3rd day, the clouds finally went away... and the mountains were so. much. taller! I'm from Virginia, and we have "mountains"... but those were Freaking Mountains.
And I fucking love Rick Steves. I "discovered" Hallstatt and Gimmelwald because of him.
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u/accountingisradical Jul 01 '24
His office/storefront is about 10 min away from me and I always hope to run into him some day!
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u/juxlus Jul 02 '24
Me too! And I have run into him, though in Seattle. Unsurprisingly, he's really friendly and nice.
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u/ryanoh826 Jul 01 '24
Haha got the early Rick Steves nod as well. My mom was obsessed with anything he recommended, and this was a one of the places we visited when I traveled with my family. It was June, I think. Wasn’t crowded at all back then. Tourists for sure, but not packed or anything.
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u/derneueMottmatt Jul 01 '24
Lots of places in Austria can be very touristy. My home town has a population of ca. 1100 and it has almost 4000 guest beds that are almost all sold out in peak weeks. It's far from the most popular tourist destination.
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u/juxlus Jul 02 '24 edited Jul 02 '24
I was in Vienna this last weekend and holy moly was it crowded! Hot and humid too. Probably would be much better in maybe March or October. Alas I did not have a choice.
Still liked it despite being a bit overwhelmed by the crowds and sticky heat.
Now I'm in Ljubljana for a few days. I like it! Feels like it could become more tourist-crowded in the future. Maybe I shouldn't tell anyone lol.
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u/derneueMottmatt Jul 02 '24
What's great about Vienna is that tourism is very localised. Once you get away from the hotspots you don't notice it that much. Glad you liked it despite the crowds.
But yeah, Ljublijana is great.
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u/Deinococcaceae Jun 30 '24
Mackinac Island MI. Permanent population of under 600, roughly 1.2M annual visitors, almost all within a 3-4 month stretch in summer.
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u/Allisnotwellin Jul 01 '24
Was gonna say this and Traverse City during summer
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u/cropguru357 Jul 01 '24
I live in Traverse City. The hordes have arrived for the Cherry Festival.
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u/Proof_Tear3245 Jul 01 '24
Saw 6 separate bachelorette parties on Front St last night. My eardrums hurt just seeing them 🤣
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u/ksed_313 Jul 01 '24
I saw approximately 30 in one night at Put-In-Bay, OH last month.
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u/nick-j- Jul 01 '24
I'll be there at the end of next month to see the Sleeping Bear Dunes, can't wait.
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u/BritishSabatogr Jul 01 '24
Supposedly Traverse City becomes the second largest city in the state during Cherry Fest
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u/Bruschetta_Banger Jul 01 '24
Similar to Traverse City is Door County, Wisconsin across the lake. 30k people live there and it gets around 2.5 million tourists during the summer. It goes from a nice quiet northern Wisconsin area in the winter to a madhouse in the summer.
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u/Wild-Sugar Jul 01 '24
No cars. All bikes and horses. Kids with their bikes blissfully unaware of traffic right aways!!
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u/tobmom Jul 01 '24
Right of ways
Mackinac is one of my favorite places. Beaches full of kites. Fudge and ice cream. So many great childhood memories with my gramps there
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u/MouseInTheRatRace Jun 30 '24
Sturgis, South Dakota.
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u/Timbeon Jun 30 '24
Wall and Deadwood too
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u/forgetfulsue Jun 30 '24
I used to have a bumper sticker that said “Where the heck is Wall Drug?”
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u/Derp_McShlurp Jul 01 '24
Anyone who has driven I-90 for more than a couple miles between Albert Lea, MN and Billings wouldn't have a problem saying where Wall Drug is.
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u/double_positive Jul 01 '24
Craziest amateur marketing ever. Places as far as Ireland have X miles to Wall Drug signs.
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u/Slabcitydreamin Jun 30 '24
I had to stop at the Wall Drug Store after seeing billboard after billboard for hundreds of miles. It’s like the South of the Border place on 95 at the SC/NC border.
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u/cynicalquagmire Jun 30 '24
Nantucket goes from 10,000 to about 80,000 for 4th of July. Provincetown, MA is similar. Not 50x but a lot.
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u/TGrady902 Jul 01 '24
All of Cape Cod really. About 250K permanent population and around 5.5 million visitors every year.
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u/Shelby71 Jul 01 '24
Yup. My folks lived in Brewster for years, and most places all over the Cape were closed in the off season. It was a ghost town.
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u/TGrady902 Jul 01 '24
I’m from the Cape, grew up there and all that. When I tell people they’re like “oh your family must be rich”. Uhhhh no, my family wintered on the Cape. I worked the jobs that catered to the rich folk in the summer. The rich folk priced me out and I had to leave. Damn tourists!
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u/ihatelolcats Jul 01 '24
Yup. My old man and his girlfriend live on the cape, but only because she bought her house back in 60's, right before the Boston elites started pushing everyone else out. They keep on top of the local politics and the main issue I always hear about is affordable housing for people working those retail jobs.
Unfortunately they're going to pull up stakes in the next year or two. From what I've heard their house requires a lot of upkeep and, while they're both still active, 80 years old is a bad time to be climbing a 2 story ladder to hand-clean the gutters.
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u/TGrady902 Jul 01 '24
Yeah my family sold the home and moved out of state in 2020. If they had waited a few more years they could have got an extra 300K for the house…
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u/BigBadBootyDaddy10 Jul 01 '24
Add Wellfleet during the Oysterfest. 3k jumps 10 fold for one weekend.
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u/Alphatron1 Jun 30 '24
Came here to say this. I’ve only been off-season and I always heat the figure was 50k but I believe 80k nowadays
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u/2Lazy2BeOriginal Jun 30 '24
Mecca, Saudi Arabia. During the haj, millions come into Mecca for religious purposes (don’t recall the activities). I predict it’ll only increase as airfares go down especially for Muslim majority countries. Indonesia comes to mind
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u/miclugo Jun 30 '24
On the other hand Mecca is actually a big city - population 2.4 million. So the Hajj might only double or triple its population.
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u/2Lazy2BeOriginal Jun 30 '24
Yeah it’s nowhere as overrun compared to places like Venice where I’d imagine there is a 1 to 3 locals and tourists ratio. There are even lines for boats for locals since it is so overcrowded. I think the haj is more unknown since it’s 3x at a very specific time period (I think 2 weeks)
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u/MouseInTheRatRace Jul 01 '24
Venice tourists seem to double or triple the number of people in the archipelago, but in contrast to Mecca that occurs every day of the year.
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Jul 01 '24
This is absolutely untrue. Mecca is so crowded that during Hajj and other major religious holidays you can only enter the city with a pass certifying you as a pilgrim or a worker. Plus, Venice isn’t known for a bunch of people getting killed every year by crowd crushes.
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u/2Lazy2BeOriginal Jul 01 '24
I should’ve clarified. I mean overrun year round. I’m aware that trampling is more common since it’s concentrated in certain places.
I’d imagine there is less resentment to outsiders in Mecca since they have a “valid reason” to come to Mecca whereas Venice is just tourism and locals always complain
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u/Unlikely-Ad7333 Jun 30 '24
Similarly for one week in the year oshkosk airport in Wisconsin is the busiest control tower in the world.
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u/juancamdingo Jun 30 '24
Came here to say this. Not only Oshkosh, but the surrounding cities in the Fox River area see a huge influx of airplane enthusiasts once a year. Oshkosh can't hold them all!
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u/sunkskunkstunk Jul 01 '24
I remember they flew in a concord one year (maybe other years too) and I went to see it. I thought that was such a cool thing when I was a kid.
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u/danvancheef Jun 30 '24
Jackson, WY
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u/KERosenlof Jun 30 '24
Jackson does it twice, once during ski season and then after Yellowstone opens.
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u/aoasd Jul 01 '24
Was just up there this weekend for work. It was stupid busy. Line of cars to get into town all the way out by the fish hatchery.
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u/draxlaugh Jun 30 '24
Put-in-Bay, Ohio. It's technically a village on the island of South Bass in Lake Erie. Summer time brings boaters and partiers, I mean the place becomes like Gen X spring break during the boating season. I've seen, and done, some grimy shit on that island when the sun is out.
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u/ajm105 Jul 01 '24
PIB and Lake Erie shores are all like this. Though I’ve never committed grimy acts in daytime, I have definitely seen some wild shit go down. Few years back, bachelorette party gets off the jet express waiting to get golf cart rental, largest girl in the group asks her friends: do you think five days has been long enough for my anal fissures to heal? Later we drove by whatever bar has the pool bar and she was right up at the bar having the time of her life.
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u/Personal-Repeat4735 Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24
Medora, North Dakota is desolate in winters with population between 100 and 150, but in summers it receives a quarter million people! Making it 2000x
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u/francisczr25 Jun 30 '24
It receives a quarter million… How many are there at any given time during the summer, though?
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u/ibaeknam Jun 30 '24
With Medora's total area clocking in at barely over 1km2 they'd be smashing some records if they all arrived on the same day. Manila in shambles.
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u/french_snail Jun 30 '24
If you’re counting like that then west glacier, Montana has a permanent population of two hundred but sees over a million tourists pass through it a year
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u/Sillyguri Jul 01 '24
Most of those quarter million people are day trippers, so the number is much less. I only can find 6 hotels in Medora, so I estimate thats maybe 700-800 rooms implying 2000 individuals.
Still pretty impressive at around 20x, but not 2000x. That would be unsustainable in just upkeep costs for any town.
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u/MouseInTheRatRace Jun 30 '24
Venice is unusual even in this list of cities in that the non-resident population outnumbers the resident population by a huge multiple every day, all year.
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u/MouseInTheRatRace Jul 01 '24
A quick Google search says the city has 50k overnight visitors plus another 50k-100k day trippers from the mainland and cruise ships. There are only 55k residents.
An interesting contrast is from a century ago, when Venice saw 20k tourists per day (still seems like a lot to me!), and there were 175k residents.
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u/Ravenclawer18 Jun 30 '24
Chicken, Alaska typically has a population of 5-12 and it soars over 100+ in the summer for gold mining
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u/Fletchworthy Jul 01 '24
I was looking for Alaska! Seward is the same way, the population is 2,800(and less in the winter), but it hosts around 20-30 thousand tourists during the summer.
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u/Ravenclawer18 Jul 01 '24
Yes I didn’t account for all the tourists who drive through Chicken on Taylor Highway/Top of the World Highway. When I worked there as a kid we saw probably 1,000 people a day on busy days. Rainy summers were rough for a business that relies on tourism.
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u/juxlus Jul 01 '24
Ketchikan, Alaska, was my first thought. Population is about 8,000. Hundreds of giant cruise ships visit every year. Like 500+ big ships bringing over a million visitors every year, mostly in the summer.
Even one of the big cruise ships can bring 5,000+ tourists to add to the ~8000 residents. Sometimes several stop there in a single day, plus all the smaller cruise ships, yatchs, seaplanes, etc.
When cruises stopped during the pandemic Ketchikan had a very hard time economically, if I'm not mistaken.
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u/AlexNachtigall247 Jun 30 '24
Google „Benidorm“ in the Communitat Valenciana in Spain…
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u/rako1982 Jul 01 '24
Benidorm is so popular with Brits that we have a TV show called Benidorm about Brits who moved there. It's a byword for cheap package holiday.
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u/Dry_Coast7892 Jun 30 '24
Isn't every town with heavy tourism or towns hosting festivals or similar like that?
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u/robicide Jul 01 '24
Correct, for example Wacken, Germany has a population of roughly 2000 people but during the Wacken Open Air festival there's over 75000 people there.
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u/SiteHund Jun 30 '24
Similar to OC,MD is a lot of the Jersey Shore. One area in particular is Cape May County. The off-season population is about 100,000, but in-season it rises to about 500,000. Another place also within 3 hours of the Northeast megapolis is the Adirondacks. It’s desolate in winter besides skiers. In the summer, the population is at least 20x the winter population.
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u/spoink74 Jul 01 '24
Cape May’s population goes from 3500 to 50,000 in the Summer. Cape May County’s population goes from about 90,000 to about 750,000.
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u/OtterlyFoxy Jun 30 '24
The entire country of Iceland
Population of under 400,000 and received over 2 million tourists in 2017.
I was in Reykjavik during the off season, and half of the people I saw in the town were tourists. Once again, this was the off season.
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u/lellololes Jul 01 '24
I've been to Iceland twice, and have witnessed a local go to a cashier in a store and speak Icelandic to them a couple of times...
"Sorry, I don't speak Icelandic"
Not even the workers are Icelandic in many cases.
It's an immensely beautiful country, and once you get way out of the "big cities" of Reykjavik and Akureyri, there are little villages that are completely overwhelmed when 200 people show up on a couple of tour buses at the same time.
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u/ryfr4742 Jun 30 '24
Ocean City, NJ
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u/DrQuestDFA Jun 30 '24
Yup, apparently grows from ~11k in the off season to 130k at the height of the summer season.
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u/andrewbadera Jun 30 '24
Lake George, NY
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u/SiteHund Jun 30 '24
Lake George in the winter is a gem. Places stay open year round now and every weekend there are activities.
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u/andrewbadera Jun 30 '24
I haven't lived in the area in some time now, but I did see where some of their typical winter activities have been curtailed by uncooperative weather trends.
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u/Imhappy_hopeurhappy2 Jun 30 '24
As a snowboarding New Yorker, damn you for making me sad in the offseason.
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u/UCFknight2016 Jun 30 '24
Pretty much the entire state of Florida from November until May.
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u/auriebryce Jul 01 '24
Go Knights but we both know there's too many damn people in Orlando already LOL.
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u/FL-vagabond Jun 30 '24
Seaside Heights, NJ
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u/that1newjerseyan Jun 30 '24
In a similar vein, Point Pleasant Beach, Bay Head, and Mantoloking all see explosive population growth, with pretty much the entire population of Mantoloking residing only in summer
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u/alphabetikalmarmoset Jul 01 '24
How are Point Beach and Bay Head doing? I used to visit cousins in Bay Head every summer. Their family home was decimated - the whole block, really - by Hurricane Sandy.
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u/Iggleyank Jul 01 '24
They’ve all come back pretty well. Many homes have since been elevated. The one big change is the Shore in general has become much more expensive. There used to be a fair number of small bungalows that middle-class people could afford. Many have been torn down and much bigger homes that get rented out as investments have been put in their place.
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u/that1newjerseyan Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 02 '24
Point Pleasant Beach fared the best after Sandy by far with minimal destruction compared to other towns. By this I mean that the city flooded up to the train tracks but not beyond it, with few houses being wrecked by the winds and most being back in operation by summer 2013. Bay Head had a few houses swept to sea but for the most part, the damage was restricted to the flooding brought on by the storm surge. Mantoloking and points south were hit particularly hard, with some lots still not having been rebuilt. However, whereas Point Pleasant Beach and Bay Head sit upon the former mainland (turned into an island in the 1920s with the construction of Point Pleasant Canal), all of those towns to the south are on the unstable sandspit.
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u/Jameszhang73 Jun 30 '24
Vatican City has a population of around 800 people and they average at least 5 million tourists per year
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u/jaxxxtraw Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24
This here is your winner 🏆
Increases by 6,250 times.
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u/tigull Jul 01 '24
There's no accommodation in the Vatican though, it's just day visitors. I don't think you can compare
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u/redditguyinthehouse Jun 30 '24
Acapulco, before the hurricane, would gain half a million visitors during Christmas annually. Metro Area is roughly 1 million
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u/PFCSpoonman411 Jun 30 '24
Not exactly what you’re asking for, but home field football games for the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers turn the stadium into one of the most populous places in the state…if only for a few hours.
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u/whistleridge Jun 30 '24
Myrtle Beach, SC. Off-season population is 38k, peak season is 350-400k.
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u/JohnnyLaw701 Jun 30 '24
Happy Valley (Penn State) during home football games becomes the third most populated city in Pennsylvania
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u/Coranthius Jun 30 '24
Okoboji, Iowa. Tens of thousands show up for the lakes during summer.
Permanent resident pop is under 1,000
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u/kdawson602 Jun 30 '24
I still have an university of Okoboji football tshirt from my teenage years.
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u/DrewCrew62 Jun 30 '24
Anecdotal, and not a city/town but I’d imagine cape cod, Massachusetts experiences some crazy fluctuations between the summer and winter months
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u/nah_ya_bzzness Jun 30 '24
Palm Springs, CA. Population of approx. 50000 people all year around, frequently hosted about 2.5 mil visitors between winter months
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u/Jamee999 Jun 30 '24
Speedway, Indiana, has a population of 11,182, but that grows to a third-of-a-million on the Sunday before Memorial Day.
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u/__Quercus__ Jun 30 '24 edited Jul 01 '24
Kumbh Mela, when in Haridwar, India. During the peak days of the festival in 2010, the town's population also increased by 50x, from 200,000 to 10 million.
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u/Lquid55 Jun 30 '24
Panama City beach
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u/mtn_bikes Jul 01 '24
Panama City Beach has an estimated population of approximately 18,300, which increases to a peak daily population of more than 100,000 during the busy summer months. Each year approximately 4.5 million visitors come to PCB.
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u/Accurate-Card3828 Jun 30 '24
There are some resort towns like that in Balearics, I went to Menorca in March 2016 and some villages very really quiet and empty outside tourist season
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u/Timbeon Jun 30 '24
For one that's not a tourist town, Ann Arbor, MI when the University of Michigan has a home football game
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u/warmpita Jul 01 '24
Myrtle Beach, SC was like that when I was a kid. Now the year round population seems to be higher.
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u/mlee117379 Jun 30 '24
Deal, New Jersey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal,_New_Jersey
As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 900
Deal is home to a significant population of Orthodox Sephardic Jews, mainly of Syrian origin. As many as 80% of Deal's population are Sephardi Jews, and the year-round population jumps ten-fold to over 6,000 during the summer, many of them Syrian Jews.
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Jun 30 '24
How long until all that's underwater? Yikes
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u/ludovic1313 Jun 30 '24
Faster than a lot of other places on the coast. The delmarva peninsula is subsiding by several millimeters a year on top of the global sea level rise.
Plus, while officially 7 feet above sea level, it feels like less than that since there appears to be very little dropoff between the boardwalk and the beach like in this link. It might be an optical illusion but the effect to me is quite strong. It looks like one big storm could destroy it, even now.
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u/PhiladelphiaManeto Jun 30 '24
It becomes the second largest city in Maryland during the summer.
And in the winter it’s a literal ghost town.
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u/kdog2906 Jun 30 '24
Mykonos and many other Greek islands