The line graph illustrates the average number of visitors entering a museum in the UK at different times of the day during summer and winter in 2003.
Overall, the museum was considerably busier in summer than in winter throughout the day. In both seasons, the number of visitors increased sharply in the morning, reached a peak around midday, and then declined steadily towards the evening. However, the winter figures were consistently much lower than those for summer.
At the beginning of the day, both seasons recorded almost no visitors. By 10:00, the number of visitors in summer rose dramatically to about 1,300, which was far higher than the winter figure of approximately 500. The summer total continued to increase, reaching a peak of around 1,500 at about 11:30, whereas winter reached only about 600 visitors at the same time, which was less than half of the summer number.
After midday, the number of visitors in both seasons began to fall, although the decline was much sharper in winter. At 14:00, the summer figure remained just under 1,000, while winter dropped to nearly zero. Towards the end of the day, the number of summer visitors decreased steadily from around 800 at 16:00 to zero at 18:00, whereas winter remained close to zero for the rest of the day.