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Bus crowding
How often the buses we see at bus interchanges are Standing only or Crowded, by hour of day. It shows when buses fill up, not which service is busiest.
Share Standing only or Crowded each day
Time of day profile
Share of readings that are Standing only or Crowded, by hour. The dotted line is the previous period.
Hour by day heatmap
Latest snapshot
Updated 14 November 2026. Readings from 18 October 2026 to 13 November 2026, 26 complete days.
- About 0.2% of bus readings were Standing only or Crowded over this period, roughly 1 in 540.
- Weekday buses are fullest at 8am, when about 0.5% of readings were Standing only or Crowded.
- On weekends the peak comes later, at 10am, at about 0.4%.
What this shows
The Land Transport Authority reports a load level for each arriving bus: Seats available, Standing only or Crowded. Seats available means there are seats, Standing only means the seats are taken but there is room to stand, and Crowded means standing room is limited. PantauSivik saves these readings from bus interchanges, and for each hour we work out the share of readings that were Standing only or Crowded.
How to read it
A value of 1% means that about 1 in 100 readings in that hour showed a bus with no free seats. Most hours are close to zero, so differences look small even when they matter on a particular route. Interchanges are where many trips start or end, so please do not treat the figures as a picture of the whole island. The change tile shows the difference in percentage points.
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Frequently asked questions
How crowded are Singapore buses?
Very few readings show a full bus. PantauSivik counts the share of bus load readings that are Standing only or Crowded out of all readings. For the latest period the figure is in the snapshot above, and it is small overall.
What do Seats available, Standing only and Crowded mean?
They are the three load levels the Land Transport Authority reports for an arriving bus. Seats available means there are seats. Standing only means the seats are taken but there is room to stand. Crowded means the bus is full.
When are buses fullest?
Weekday mornings and evenings. The heatmap shows the share by hour and day, and the profile chart compares the current period with the previous one.
Does this show which bus services are busiest?
No. It covers the buses we see at the bus interchanges we collect, by hour of day, not individual services or stops.
How is the share calculated?
It is the number of readings that are Standing only or Crowded divided by all load readings for that hour, which are Seats available, Standing only and Crowded.
Data sources and credits. Expressway travel times, road speed bands, bus load and platform crowd levels come from the Land Transport Authority DataMall, made available under the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0. PantauSivik saves its own readings and shows summaries of them here, so these are not official statistics. Readings are accessed regularly and the latest day shown is on this page. PantauSivik is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government agency. Use of these charts is covered by our data terms of use.