Ocean / Surf
East Beach
Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MA
Plover closureHidden gemSurf · intermediateSeal viewing
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SeclusionNatureFishingBirding
Surf wavesUncrowded
Getting onto the Cape · Friday 8:30 PM
liveFriday evening traffic onto Cape Cod is easing after the peak, with delays of 1 to 2 minutes over normal across the bridges and Route 28. Sagamore is at 61 minutes, Bourne at 65 minutes, and Route 28 at 80 minutes.
Typical Friday · Boston → Hyannis
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Source: Google Routes API · colour shows delay vs the 1:11 clear-road baseline (same scale for every origin) · dashed cells are pattern estimates. Hover any cell for readings by date.
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The shape of each day · Boston → Hyannis · June
dashed = clear road 1:11Thursday
6a9p
Peaks mid-afternoon at 2:11
Friday
6a9p
2P spike to 2:15 — the week's worst
Saturday
6a9p
Peaks around noon at 1:38
Typical Friday, hour by hour · Boston → Hyannis
same colours as the weekly gridclear road 1:11
1:18
1:26
1:35
1:32
1:38
1:40
1:48
2:00
2:15
2:14
2:03
1:46
1:26
1:20
1:20
1:16
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The readings log
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| When | Route | Duration vs clear |
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Where these numbers come from
Live readings
Google Routes API, polled every 15 minutes from — origins.
Logged history
— readings stored — every one browsable below.
Typical patterns
90-day curves fill the gaps — shown faded until live data confirms them.
Solid numbers are live or calibrated; faded ones are pattern estimates.Browse all — readings·Download CSV
Read the full methodology
- Live — Real-time Google reading (5+ samples this hour)
- Calibrated — Learned multiplier from 90-day history
- Estimated — Static baseline — no live data yet
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