38 cities on our sites have enough quote requests to publish a local figure. Ranked by request volume, this is where group transportation demand actually sits, with the group size, weekend share and trip length each market asks for.
Most “best party bus cities” lists are travel copy. This one is a count. A city appears here only when at least 25 quote requests on our own sites named it, and every column is a median or share over those local requests. Cities with a usable local lead time are the six with the largest samples; for the rest, too few requests carry both a city and a request date for us to stand behind a number.
| Rank | City | Requests | Median group | Fri + Sat | Median hours | Median lead time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seattle | 522 | 16 | 80% | 4 | — |
| 2 | Philadelphia | 405 | 14 | 76% | 5 | — |
| 3 | Grand Rapids | 373 | 14 | 85% | 4 | — |
| 4 | Indianapolis | 311 | 15 | 75% | 4 | — |
| 5 | Phoenix | 251 | 15 | 77% | 4 | — |
| 6 | Milwaukee | 235 | 15 | 81% | 4 | — |
| 7 | Birmingham | 221 | 15 | 80% | 4 | — |
| 8 | Baltimore | 188 | 15 | 85% | 4 | — |
| 9 | Omaha | 164 | 15 | 84% | 4 | — |
| 10 | Atlanta | 155 | 16 | 85% | 5 | — |
| 11 | New Orleans | 154 | 17 | 83% | 4 | — |
| 12 | New York City | 137 | 15 | 69% | 5 | — |
| 13 | Lexington | 137 | 13 | 77% | 4 | — |
| 14 | Fort Worth | 124 | 14 | 87% | 4 | — |
| 15 | Salt Lake City | 122 | 15 | 73% | 4 | — |
| 16 | Denver | 119 | 14–15 | 79% | 5 | 22 days |
| 17 | Albuquerque | 118 | 12 | 73% | 4 | — |
| 18 | Reno | 103 | 12 | 85% | 4 | — |
| 19 | Cedar Rapids | 103 | 18 | 84% | 4 | — |
| 20 | Austin | 102 | 15 | 60% | 5 | 17 days |
| 21 | Knoxville | 98 | 10 | 81% | 4 | — |
| 22 | Anchorage | 96 | 12–13 | 68% | 4 | — |
| 23 | St. Louis | 96 | 16 | 75% | 4 | — |
| 24 | Honolulu | 95 | 15 | 76% | 4 | — |
| 25 | Akron | 92 | 12 | 74% | 4 | — |
| 26 | Toledo | 88 | 15 | 61% | 4 | — |
| 27 | Buffalo | 85 | 15 | 80% | 4 | — |
| 28 | Kalamazoo | 85 | 11 | 77% | 4 | — |
| 29 | Dallas | 83 | 15 | 72% | 4 | 22 days |
| 30 | Corpus Christi | 81 | 13 | 88% | 5 | — |
| 31 | Charlotte | 76 | 15 | 82% | 4 | — |
| 32 | Baton Rouge | 73 | 15 | 77% | 4 | — |
| 33 | Sioux Falls | 68 | 20 | 90% | 4 | — |
| 34 | Atlantic City | 68 | 12–13 | 87% | 4 | — |
| 35 | Dayton | 65 | 15 | 91% | 4 | — |
| 36 | San Diego | 56 | 14 | 78% | 4 | 31 days |
| 37 | Houston | 45 | 16 | 67% | 5 | 22 days |
| 38 | Las Vegas | 43 | 13 | 86% | 4 | 21 days |
What the ranking shows
Group size barely moves by city. Almost every market sits within a rider or two of the national median of 15. The city changes which venues and which curbs, not how many people are in the group.
Weekend concentration is the local variable. The Friday-plus-Saturday share ranges across these markets, and the cities at the top of that column are the ones where a Saturday vehicle should be booked earliest. The national figure is 81%.
Hours are flat. Four is the median almost everywhere, which matches the national picture: 76% of all quotes are written for the four-hour block regardless of market.
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