Spotify listening stats: your listening clock and calendar

What a listening clock shows

A listening clock is a circle of 24 spokes, one per hour of the day. Each spoke grows with the number of plays that started in that hour. Read clockwise from midnight and the shape becomes a fingerprint of your routine: the flat early hours, the commute spike, the evening stretch.

• The data is a timestamp per play. Spotify supplies a played_at time with every track, and hour-of-day is just that time's hour.
• Local time matters. A play at 11pm in Sydney is a different hour in UTC, so the clock converts every play into your own time zone first.
• It complements top lists. Top artists say what you played; the clock says when. Neither replaces the other.

What a listening calendar shows

A listening calendar is a year grid, one cell per day, shaded from almost empty to deep green by that day's play count. Where the clock compresses a year into 24 bars, the calendar shows the year day by day: the heavy listening days, the weeks you were away and the streaks you did not notice you were on.

It is the same data as the clock, only bucketed by local day instead of hour. Both views cover the last twelve months, so the picture changes gradually rather than resetting each January.

See your own listening clock and calendar

1. Connect your Spotify account. It is free and requests no new permissions beyond the listening stats the site already uses.
2. Open the Listening Stats page. Your clock and calendar are built from the plays Spotify Stats has recorded for you.
3. Check the time zone label. The charts say which zone they used. The site follows your browser's zone automatically; if it cannot be detected, it shows UTC and says so.
4. Add older plays if you want them. Ask Spotify for your Extended streaming history on its privacy page, then import the file from your profile to backfill months or years at once.
5. Share the card. The page generates a 1200×630 image of your clock, ready to post, download or send.

The calendar starts as soon as recording starts, so a new account can look empty for a few days. Importing your extended history is the fastest way to fill it in.

Illustration only, not real listening data. Your page uses your own plays, hours and days.

A typical evening shape: quiet mornings, a lift after work, a peak between 18:00 and 21:00 and a slow tail after midnight. Yours will differ, and that is the point of looking.

Frequently asked questions

What is a Spotify listening clock?

A listening clock is a 24-hour circular chart of when you listen. Each of the 24 spokes is one hour of the day, and the spoke's length shows how many plays start in that hour. It answers questions a top-artists list cannot, such as whether you listen most on the morning commute or late at night.

What is a listening calendar heatmap?

A listening calendar is a year grid with one small cell per day, shaded by how many tracks you played that day. Empty days stay pale and heavy days turn dark green, so you can spot listening streaks, quiet weeks and the day of your heaviest listening at a glance.

How do I see my listening clock and calendar?

Connect your Spotify account to Spotify Stats and open the Listening Stats page. It builds both charts from the plays Spotify Stats has stored for you, going back up to 12 months. There is nothing to install and no extra permission is requested.

Does the Spotify app show a listening clock?

No. Spotify Wrapped summarises a year but does not include an hour-of-day chart or a full year calendar. Your hourly listening pattern is not available anywhere in the Spotify app or its API; it has to be computed from play timestamps, which is what Spotify Stats does with the history it records.

Which time zone does the clock use?

Your browser's local time zone. Spotify reports play times in UTC, and Spotify Stats converts each stored play to your zone before counting hours and days, including across daylight-saving changes. If your time zone cannot be detected, the page says it is using UTC instead.

How far back does the listening calendar go?

The calendar always covers the last 365 days. Spotify Stats starts recording when you connect, so the first weeks can look sparse. To fill in older months, request your Extended streaming history from Spotify's privacy page and import the file from your profile page.

Are the clock spokes minutes or plays?

Plays. Each spoke counts how many tracks started in that hour, and every stored play ran for more than 30 seconds. Counting plays rather than minutes keeps the chart accurate even when a track's duration is not cached yet.