Chasing Shade scores every section of a stadium for shade, temperature, UV, and time-to-burn — at any game time, for any event. Ticketing partners embed the score into seat selection, turning a hidden health variable into a reason to buy.
The score blends what a person actually feels in a seat — computed from astronomy, stadium geometry, and live weather. Every factor is returned in the response; the weights are tunable per venue.
Sun azimuth and elevation for any seat, date, and time — validated against NOAA's reference solar calculator to better than 0.01°. No external feed; pure astronomy.
Ray-sampled overhead cover plus far-rim blocking when the sun is low across the field. Reports shaded (out of direct sun) separately from covered (protected from rain) — the same honest split major seat-rating sites use.
Apparent temperature, UV, humidity, and wind blend with shade into a 0–100 comfort score. The per-factor breakdown and the exact weights ship in every response — no black box.
The overlay lives inside your existing seat-selection step — a toggle in your map's control bar that tints the seats you already render, comfort chips in your listing cards, detail in your existing seat panel. Off by default; one tap on. Your funnel, your brand, our science.
A themeable web component with presets — add one tag and a little config. Best for resellers and fast pilots.
Consume the API directly and build in your own components. Best for partners with mature design systems.
When a buyer is picking among listings for the same event, "which of these is in the shade at 1pm in August?" is a direct conversion lever. Comfort becomes UX differentiation where partners compete on experience, not exclusive inventory.
Compete purely on UX and value; the comfort score is an immediate, per-listing conversion lever. Fast pilots, live embeds.
Straddle primary and secondary; UX differentiation is a competitive weapon and integration is straightforward.
Own the seat map and the venue relationship; a live reference makes the case for rollout across every venue.
The scale column reflects platform types where comfort intelligence has a natural fit. It does not imply any existing partnership or integration agreement.
Sun position matches NOAA's reference solar calculator to better than 0.01° — more than ten times tighter than the contractual bar.
Every response includes the score, the per-factor breakdown, and the exact weights used. Weights are venue settings — recalibrated without a code change.
No names, no emails, no personal data. The subscription feed is keyed by opaque tokens — venue, event, seat only. A natural fit for partner privacy and compliance.
Inside 7 days: live forecast. Beyond: historical probability, always labeled. The system never pretends to know what it can't.
Levi's Stadium. Real sections. Real comfort scores from the live API. Scrub through game day, switch skin types, hover any section for the full breakdown — shade, temperature, UV, and time-to-burn.