# Place to Be

> A live radar of the events and places worth showing up for. See what is trending right now in cities worldwide, every spot ranked 0-100 by how hot it is.

## What this source is
A live, worldwide radar of what is actually on: concerts, matches, festivals, club nights, cultural events and city moments.

- Every event carries a trendiness score from 0 to 100 that says how big the moment is, computed the same way for every event from crowd size, timing and category. Where a source provides a predicted attendance figure it is used directly, so the score reflects a real expected crowd rather than a guess.
- Neutral by construction: we sell no tickets and take no cut, and no venue, promoter or organiser can pay for placement or for a higher score. There is no sponsored slot anywhere on the board.
- Cross-source: ticketing, live sport, cultural and public-calendar feeds are merged into ONE ranked board per city, with duplicates of the same event collapsed. That single comparable ranking across sources is the thing this site has that the individual ticketing sites do not.
- Coverage right now: 34,554 events across 281 cities in 31 countries, all readable without an account.
- Freshness: the board is re-ingested from every live source every two hours, and again at most once an hour while the site is in use. Individual sources differ: the ticketing, sports and open-data feeds are re-read on that cadence, while any source whose access has lapsed keeps its last-known rows, which are sorted behind the fresh board and removed once nothing has re-asserted them for three weeks. Pages render current timing on each request. API responses carry a generated_at timestamp and bounded cache headers that expire before known event status changes.
- Horizon: events from now to 160 days ahead. Past events drop off the board automatically.
- Honest gaps: a city with no live board simply is not listed, and an empty result means nothing is on, never a placeholder. Nothing on this site is invented.

## Machine-readable endpoints (free, CORS-open, no key)
Any site, directory or agent may poll, embed or quote these.

### JSON events API
`GET /api/city/<slug>/events`
- `limit` integer 1 to 100, default 30.
- `category` comma-separated list of: music, nightlife, festival, sports, culture, food, community, other.
- `status=live` returns only events on stage at this moment. Omit it to get upcoming plus live, ranked by trendiness.
- Response: `{ city: { name, slug, country }, count, generated_at, source, events: [...] }`. Each event has `id`, `title`, `category`, `venue`, `area`, `city`, `country`, `starts_at`, `ends_at`, `timezone`, `status` (live, soon, upcoming, ongoing, ended), `trend_score` (0-100), `tier`, `reason`, `image`, `ticket_url` (the organiser's own page) and `link` (the page on this site).
- An unknown city slug returns HTTP 404 with an empty `events` array. Responses are cached for 10 minutes.

### MCP server (for AI assistants)
`POST https://placetobe.cc/mcp` speaks the Model Context Protocol over Streamable HTTP: stateless, public, no key and no account. Add it to any MCP-capable assistant as a remote server. It serves protocol revision 2026-07-28 and the handshake revisions 2025-03-26 to 2025-11-25. How to connect: /ai
- `search_events`: Find the events worth going to in a city, a country or worldwide, ranked by how big a moment each is (a 0-100 score from expected crowd and timing) or by start time, optionally only those matching a name (an artist, team, show or venue). Covers concerts, sport, festivals, nightlife, culture and city moments, merged from ticketing, sports and open-data feeds and refreshed every two hours. Use it for questions like "what's on in Lisbon this weekend", "biggest concerts in London this week", "when are Arsenal at home" or "is Coldplay playing in Europe". Each result has the local date and time, venue, score with a one-line reason, and a link to the event's page.
- `list_cities`: List the cities that currently have a live events board, with how many upcoming events each holds, biggest first. Filter by part of a name or by country. Use it to check coverage or to find the exact city name before calling search_events.
- `get_event`: Get one event in full: description, venue and address, coordinates, local start and end, score with its reason, and the ticketing or official source page. Pass an id from search_events, or an event URL from placetobe.cc.

### Other formats of the same board
- RSS 2.0: `GET /feed/city/<slug>`
- iCalendar subscription: `GET /feed/city/<slug>/calendar.ics` (subscribable as `webcal://`)
- Embeddable live widget (iframe): `/embed/city/<slug>`
- Sitemap of every indexable page: `/sitemap.xml`

## Licence and attribution
- Free to read, quote, republish and use in AI answers, commercially included, with attribution: name "Place to Be" and link to the page the facts came from (the `link` field of each event, or the city board).
- Event titles, dates and venues are facts about public events run by other people. We claim no ownership of them and no exclusivity over them.
- The 0-100 trendiness score, the ranking, the deduplication and the wording of each board are ours. Attribute them when you use them.
- No scraping is needed for any of this: use the endpoints above. They need no key, no account and no quota request.

## Pages
- [Radar](/)
- [The Pulse](/pulse)
- [Cities](/cities)
- [How it works](/about)

## Reports and guides
Original analysis of the radar dataset, free to quote and cite with attribution:
- [The day our dedupe hid El Clásico: matching one event across seven live feeds](/blog/the-day-our-dedupe-hid-el-clasico) (2026-09-28) - One game, three titles. How we match the same fixture across ESPN and Ticketmaster by its structure instead of its words, why the copy we keep must be the one every refresh brings back, and the merge rule that quietly hid 827 games, El Clásico among them.
- [The biggest Halloween events of 2026](/blog/biggest-halloween-events-2026) (2026-09-21) - Halloween 2026 falls on Saturday, October 31. We track every event happening around it: 3,948 in the Halloween window across 889 cities, 117 of them genuinely Halloween or Day of the Dead themed. Here are the biggest parties, the cities where the night is most alive, and the giant events you did not know share the weekend.
- [The biggest concerts and events of fall 2026](/blog/biggest-events-fall-2026) (2026-09-20) - We track 44,754 events happening across the world this fall and score each one for the crowd it will actually pull. Here are the biggest concerts, matches, races and festivals between now and December, and the cities where the season is most alive.
- [Where the world is actually going out, September 2026](/blog/pulse-september-2026) (2026-09-14) - We track 72,476 upcoming events across 8,827 cities. Here is what the whole dataset says about where the crowds actually are this month, and why the busiest-looking city is not the most alive.
- [How we decide what is trending](/blog/how-the-ranking-works) (2026-07-28) - Every event on Place to Be carries a number from 0 to 100. Here is exactly what goes into it, what does not, and why nobody can pay to move it.

## Cities (60 of 281 shown, full directory at /cities)
- [Paris](/city/paris) - live ranked board, 3640 events
- [London](/city/london) - live ranked board, 1049 events
- [Nantes](/city/nantes) - live ranked board, 1028 events
- [Toronto](/city/toronto) - live ranked board, 985 events
- [Manchester](/city/manchester) - live ranked board, 942 events
- [New York](/city/new-york) - live ranked board, 932 events
- [Glasgow](/city/glasgow) - live ranked board, 906 events
- [Chicago](/city/chicago) - live ranked board, 889 events
- [Geneva](/city/geneva) - live ranked board, 869 events
- [Bordeaux](/city/bordeaux) - live ranked board, 855 events
- [San Francisco](/city/san-francisco) - live ranked board, 827 events
- [Atlanta](/city/atlanta) - live ranked board, 797 events
- [Los Angeles](/city/los-angeles) - live ranked board, 792 events
- [Dublin](/city/dublin) - live ranked board, 766 events
- [Mexico City](/city/mexico-city) - live ranked board, 733 events
- [Nashville](/city/nashville) - live ranked board, 712 events
- [Toulouse](/city/toulouse) - live ranked board, 642 events
- [Rennes](/city/rennes) - live ranked board, 583 events
- [Lille](/city/lille) - live ranked board, 531 events
- [Amsterdam](/city/amsterdam) - live ranked board, 518 events
- [Las Vegas](/city/las-vegas) - live ranked board, 479 events
- [Berlin](/city/berlin) - live ranked board, 381 events
- [Copenhagen](/city/copenhagen) - live ranked board, 339 events
- [Sydney](/city/sydney) - live ranked board, 301 events
- [Rouen](/city/rouen) - live ranked board, 282 events
- [Marseille](/city/marseille) - live ranked board, 257 events
- [Brussels](/city/brussels) - live ranked board, 232 events
- [Miami](/city/miami) - live ranked board, 230 events
- [Milan](/city/milan) - live ranked board, 228 events
- [Barcelona](/city/barcelona) - live ranked board, 206 events
- [Vienna](/city/vienna) - live ranked board, 202 events
- [Prague](/city/prague) - live ranked board, 201 events
- [Madrid](/city/madrid) - live ranked board, 200 events
- [Tourcoing](/city/tourcoing) - live ranked board, 195 events
- [Istanbul](/city/istanbul) - live ranked board, 186 events
- [Munich](/city/munich) - live ranked board, 184 events
- [Melbourne](/city/melbourne) - live ranked board, 177 events
- [Alès](/city/ales) - live ranked board, 167 events
- [Villeneuve-d'Ascq](/city/villeneuve-d-ascq) - live ranked board, 155 events
- [Draguignan](/city/draguignan) - live ranked board, 151 events
- [Rotterdam](/city/rotterdam) - live ranked board, 149 events
- [Tokyo](/city/tokyo) - live ranked board, 149 events
- [Lisbon](/city/lisbon) - live ranked board, 129 events
- [Stockholm](/city/stockholm) - live ranked board, 127 events
- [Hollywood](/city/hollywood) - live ranked board, 125 events
- [Roubaix](/city/roubaix) - live ranked board, 125 events
- [Nevers](/city/nevers) - live ranked board, 124 events
- [Oslo](/city/oslo) - live ranked board, 123 events
- [Auckland](/city/auckland) - live ranked board, 122 events
- [Inglewood](/city/inglewood) - live ranked board, 118 events
- [Antwerp](/city/antwerp) - live ranked board, 114 events
- [Ibiza](/city/ibiza) - live ranked board, 111 events
- [Zurich](/city/zurich) - live ranked board, 110 events
- [Strasbourg](/city/strasbourg) - live ranked board, 107 events
- [Vancouver](/city/vancouver) - live ranked board, 104 events
- [Issy-les-Moulineaux](/city/issy-les-moulineaux) - live ranked board, 101 events
- [Avignon](/city/avignon) - live ranked board, 100 events
- [Oakland](/city/oakland) - live ranked board, 95 events
- [Utrecht](/city/utrecht) - live ranked board, 95 events
- [Saint-Médard-en-Jalles](/city/saint-medard-en-jalles) - live ranked board, 94 events

## Filtered views
Every city board has search-intent views at `/city/<slug>/<filter>`:
- Time: `tonight`, `this-weekend`, `this-week` (for example /city/amsterdam/this-weekend)
- Category: `concerts`, `nightlife`, `festivals`, `sport`, `culture`, `food`, `community`

## Where each scene is right now
Cities ranked by the count of notable events (scoring 50+) tracked over the next 30 days, from ticketing and nightlife listings that carry a real crowd signal. Open cultural-data categories are excluded because their city coverage is too uneven to rank fairly.

### Nightlife: busiest cities this month
1. London, GB - 42 notable events tracked, hottest: MIROIR: KOKO (IT)
2. Sydney, AU - 36 notable events tracked, hottest: Mode Festival 2026
3. Toronto, CA - 28 notable events tracked, hottest: Lenny Pearce - Toddler Rave World Tour
4. Manchester, GB - 24 notable events tracked, hottest: James Blake - Trying Times Tour
5. New York, US - 21 notable events tracked, hottest: Joris Voorn - Trip to Galaxy Tour
6. Munich, DE - 20 notable events tracked, hottest: Klangfarben Kollektiv pres. FUTURE FACES
7. Dublin, IE - 19 notable events tracked, hottest: Duke Dumont
8. Brussels, BE - 18 notable events tracked, hottest: James Blake – Trying Times Tour

### Live music: busiest cities this month
1. London, GB - 446 notable events tracked, hottest: ABBA Voyage
2. New York, US - 392 notable events tracked, hottest: 2026 MONSTA X WORLD TOUR [THE X : NEXUS] IN NEW YORK
3. Los Angeles, US - 277 notable events tracked, hottest: Jungle
4. Chicago, US - 249 notable events tracked, hottest: Black Coffee (18+ Event)
5. Nashville, US - 243 notable events tracked, hottest: Grand Ole Opry: OPRY 100
6. San Francisco, US - 228 notable events tracked, hottest: Chayanne - Bailemos Otra Vez Tour
7. Atlanta, US - 213 notable events tracked, hottest: Ed Sheeran: LOOP Tour
8. Toronto, CA - 211 notable events tracked, hottest: beabadoobee: The Powerlines Tour

## What is hot right now
The top-ranked events in the best-covered cities, as of 2026-09-29T10:49:58.331Z:

### Paris
- Barcelona at Paris Saint-Germain at Parc des Princes (Tue 20 Oct), trendiness 80/100, venue capacity 48k -> /place/barcelona-at-paris-saint-germain--cd6dcf38-4d3c-4fb1-8102-1a0388188b1e
- AS Roma at Paris Saint-Germain at Parc des Princes (Wed 25 Nov), trendiness 80/100, venue capacity 48k -> /place/as-roma-at-paris-saint-germain--5d9ba872-8502-4bdb-b984-e573d725d692
- Stade Rennais at Paris FC at Stade Jean Bouin (Sun 18 Oct), trendiness 75/100 -> /place/stade-rennais-at-paris-fc--97ed0bdd-4ef5-499f-ada4-e99416dece5e

### London
- Czechia at England at Wembley Stadium (Tue 6 Oct), trendiness 84/100, venue capacity 90k -> /place/czechia-at-england--99865fc0-b2bd-432d-ad08-f9ff8042a197
- Houston Texans at Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium (Sun 18 Oct), trendiness 84/100, venue capacity 90k -> /place/houston-texans-at-jacksonville-jaguars--8b8e676c-04d3-4e1f-96e6-101af729efb7
- Indianapolis Colts at Washington Commanders at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (Sun 4 Oct), trendiness 81/100, venue capacity 62k -> /place/indianapolis-colts-at-washington-commanders--bf4ccebe-9055-4441-b316-df5a19a00619

### Nantes
- Nature Nomade 2026, le festival nantais des grands voyageurs at Château des ducs de Bretagne (Fri 6 Nov), trendiness 71/100 -> /place/nature-nomade-2026-le-festival-nantais-des-grands-voyageurs--3b28f254-3c12-4405-8b75-42dabbd1f98d
- Danse : La Vague at Château des Ducs de Bretagne (Sun 6 Dec), trendiness 71/100 -> /place/danse-la-vague--e806f60d-56dd-44f6-883c-aa1d764b7140
- Montpellier at Nantes (Women) at Stade de la Beaujoire (Sat 3 Oct), trendiness 65/100 -> /place/montpellier-at-nantes-women--02b10c45-780f-44cd-91b2-451e7ba34aa0

### Toronto
- New York Knicks at Toronto Raptors at Scotiabank Arena (Tue 13 Oct), trendiness 78/100, venue capacity 19.8k -> /place/new-york-knicks-at-toronto-raptors--33ac45d0-d30e-40a8-9592-01fdeca91a80
- Chicago Bulls at Toronto Raptors at Scotiabank Arena (Wed 21 Oct), trendiness 78/100, venue capacity 19.8k -> /place/chicago-bulls-at-toronto-raptors--37377bda-582d-4977-bda5-18f7ea255390
- CF Montréal at Toronto FC at BMO Field (Sat 10 Oct), trendiness 74/100 -> /place/cf-montreal-at-toronto-fc--079d0c9c-7026-4c70-9161-0bf2fa500979

### Manchester
- Paris Saint-Germain at Manchester City at Etihad Stadium (Wed 14 Oct), trendiness 80/100, venue capacity 53k -> /place/paris-saint-germain-at-manchester-city--b54fa2b9-f653-4ff7-a630-622b05a9362b
- AEK Athens at Manchester City at Etihad Stadium (Tue 20 Oct), trendiness 80/100, venue capacity 53k -> /place/aek-athens-at-manchester-city--7ce8db98-cf45-4a1d-a3bf-412719a6ede5
- Tottenham Hotspur at Manchester United at Old Trafford (Sat 10 Oct), trendiness 79/100, venue capacity 74k -> /place/tottenham-hotspur-at-manchester-united--c1556a32-7da7-437b-9415-f9cf3b3e88a8

### New York
- Philadelphia 76ers at Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center (Thu 8 Oct), trendiness 78/100 -> /place/philadelphia-76ers-at-brooklyn-nets--dde4f686-f904-45da-ab90-a4c05033e8fc
- Washington Wizards at New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden (Thu 8 Oct), trendiness 78/100, venue capacity 20k -> /place/washington-wizards-at-new-york-knicks--d3d2038c-114a-4d2f-8982-5987775e677f
- Minnesota Timberwolves at New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden (Mon 12 Oct), trendiness 78/100, venue capacity 20k -> /place/minnesota-timberwolves-at-new-york-knicks--cca5e160-21b3-4b47-9460-c050a2a74200

### Glasgow
- Switzerland at Scotland at Hampden Park (Tue 29 Sept), trendiness 77/100, venue capacity 51.8k -> /place/switzerland-at-scotland--0b48bf49-68e8-4b54-8f47-e58fed98e723
- Slovenia at Scotland at Hampden Park (Tue 6 Oct), trendiness 77/100, venue capacity 51.8k -> /place/slovenia-at-scotland--cfa81721-7096-4496-b1d7-c055861142c2
- The Irn-Bru Carnival at SEC Centre (Fri 18 Dec), trendiness 75/100 -> /place/the-irn-bru-carnival--9ff4891b-7706-4ff8-be0d-af8305d68d3e

### Chicago
- Chicago Marathon at Chicago city centre (Sun 11 Oct), trendiness 98/100, expected crowd 500k -> /place/chicago-marathon--e71a0d29-e7f1-4bf5-a58d-6f6538ebdafe
- New York Jets at Chicago Bears at Soldier Field (Sun 4 Oct), trendiness 79/100 -> /place/new-york-jets-at-chicago-bears--2aaecba8-01bc-48e4-bd2b-aeb73363ab08
- New England Patriots at Chicago Bears at Soldier Field (Thu 22 Oct), trendiness 79/100 -> /place/new-england-patriots-at-chicago-bears--e75ab7e5-88a8-4a2e-9156-524cc42dd54a

### Geneva
- Oud-Heverlee Leuven at Servette (Women) at Stade de Genève (Wed 28 Oct), trendiness 71/100 -> /place/oud-heverlee-leuven-at-servette-women--38e17d2b-f1b2-4019-963f-dfabd498f643
- Paris FC at Servette (Women) at Stade de Genève (Wed 16 Dec), trendiness 71/100 -> /place/paris-fc-at-servette-women--0b60ad38-3c9c-43a2-b158-632f77d85f26
- Indochine at Arena Genève (Tue 15 Dec), trendiness 62/100 -> /place/indochine--bdc6802a-0673-46ee-a72b-8182895bee6c

### Bordeaux
- Türkiye at France at Stade Atlantique (Sun 15 Nov), trendiness 74/100 -> /place/turkiye-at-france--c70298a0-f968-443e-b4d8-da8ff60986d3
- Bordeaux Begles vs Stormers at Stade Chaban-Delmas (Sun 13 Dec), trendiness 73/100 -> /place/bordeaux-begles-vs-stormers--e3be21cb-ffbd-4bc5-8055-8f23510ae55f
- Bordeaux Begles vs Munster at Stade Chaban-Delmas (Sun 10 Jan), trendiness 73/100 -> /place/bordeaux-begles-vs-munster--e6392f37-3bcc-4bdb-b5d2-621cc4df21de

## On right now (live this minute)
Events on stage as of 2026-09-29T10:49:58.331Z, hottest first:
- Postseason Pregame Glimpse of Greatness Tour*2026 Wild Card Game 1 in New York at Yankee Stadium (Tue 29 Sept), trendiness 69/100 -> /place/postseason-pregame-glimpse-of-greatness-tour-2026-wild-card-game-1--adc59dd1-4514-42c1-9f3c-5e7a9c02b87d
- Brazil at Australia in Brisbane at Suncorp Stadium (Tue 29 Sept), trendiness 64/100 -> /place/brazil-at-australia--9cd5f467-458d-472a-8195-a125c9e3e145
- Exposition photo et musique d'Oleñka Carrasco et la Chica, lauréates du Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains - Festival Planches Contact - Les Franciscaines. in Deauville at Les Franciscaines Deauville (Tue 29 Sept), trendiness 57/100 -> /place/exposition-photo-et-musique-d-olenka-carrasco-et-la-chica-laureates-du-prix-swiss-life-a-4-mains-festival-planches-contact-les-franciscaines--603fd707-b157-431f-8e7b-919872c069a9
- NIGHTSHIFT AFTER HOURS in Los Angeles at The Lexington (Mon 28 Sept), trendiness 52/100 -> /place/nightshift-after-hours--09c3340b-7cea-44a5-ac7e-577d271f8703
- Vive la mariée ! in Paris at L'Institut du Monde Arabe (Tue 29 Sept), trendiness 41/100 -> /place/vive-la-mariee--c6c030fc-d475-4c03-bd86-80485158ac16
- Postseason Pregame Tour*2026 Wild Card Game 1 in New York at Yankee Stadium (Tue 29 Sept), trendiness 69/100 -> /place/postseason-pregame-tour-2026-wild-card-game-1--eded2461-b1f8-4be3-8e32-8c29a8d9b53a
- Fauves 2026 - Festival des créations émergentes in Nantes at TU - Théâtre Universitaire Nantes (Tue 29 Sept), trendiness 56/100 -> /place/fauves-2026-festival-des-creations-emergentes--cb084786-8798-4220-8db4-dca076b4572f
- CX at E11EVEN in Miami at E11EVEN MIAMI (Mon 28 Sept), trendiness 46/100 -> /place/cx-at-e11even--1ce8506f-933d-4ee2-a14d-c6f951966ad8
- Jardins inatteignables, l'installation de Sina Abedi in Paris at Orangerie du Sénat (Tue 29 Sept), trendiness 40/100 -> /place/jardins-inatteignables-l-installation-de-sina-abedi--1ef15017-d065-4170-9f73-9a7d129cb2ac
- Tour Allwyn Arena in Nea Filadelfeia, Athens at Allwyn Arena (Tue 29 Sept), trendiness 66/100 -> /place/tour-allwyn-arena--4babe7bc-5101-4758-a3da-73bea6043773
- Nadar : inventer Paris, des profondeurs au ciel in Paris at Les Catacombes de Paris (Tue 29 Sept), trendiness 53/100 -> /place/nadar-inventer-paris-des-profondeurs-au-ciel--8703dd8a-0e7c-4c72-9c7b-376e30cf60a4
- BRAZLOMBIA in Melbourne at Wax Music Lounge (Tue 29 Sept), trendiness 45/100 -> /place/brazlombia--b775e717-44ce-4a2c-9943-8520be320a1f