The Coding Calendar
How seasons of year affect programming productivity in different countries
We've reverse-engineered five years of GitHub activity (2020-2024) to uncover the hidden seasonal trends that dictate how and when programmers ship code.
Find out how the seasons affect your peers worldwide:
- How programmer activity changes with the seasons. 🏖️
- Which regions have the biggest seasonal drops. 📉
- Who codes consistently no matter the time of year. 💻
- Which country completely flips the trend. 🤯
Devs slow down in Q3 across the region. They hit the brakes in July and August, with activity dropping 8.5% compared to the Q4 hustle.
Programmers take a break for summer and major holidays, making their code output 24% lower than in winter.
Programmers from these regions start slow and build momentum throughout the year, with their peak activity increasing by 21% at the end of the year.
And then there's China with an opposite trend. Chinese developers slow down in Q4 by 17%, completely flipping the script on the global trend.
The top of this list takes Peru. Our data shows a 34.6% difference between their least and most active coding seasons.
And there are countries where code output is consistent no matter what. Israel takes the top spot in this rating, with just a 4.4% range in its work patterns throughout the year.
Check out the interactive report to find your country, discover a new trend or a surprising outlier.
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- The statistics are based on public activity only. Open-source productivity may not be the same as overall productivity.
- For our ratings, we analyzed only countries with over 100,000 contributors in the five-year dataset.