Google knows that it is customary to get really drunk on New Year’s Eve. How so? Two words: “hangover cure.”
Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post has discovered through charting daily Google Trends from July 2013 to July 2014 that New Year’s Day — at least this year’s — is when we most often plug the phrase “hangover cure” into Google.
That means, theoretically, that New Year’s Eve is the drunkest night of all. Judging by the mass champagne popping and the throngs of nicely-dressed (or scantily-clad) individuals that are witnessed on NYE, this isn’t difficult to believe.
According to Ingraham’s analysis, “hangover cure” was searched almost 10 times more on New Year’s Day than any other day on average in 2014.
The day after Halloween followed January 1 as the second most hungover day, and a random day in May — Sunday the 18th — came in third place right before July 5, a more obvious post-party recovery day.
Unsurprisingly, individuals are more likely to search for their “hangover cure” on weekends rather than weekdays, with the most searches falling on Sundays. Saturdays are the second most popular day to be all hungover and achy, and Mondays the third.
Here is a list of the most hungover days of 2014, beginning with the one that started it all (and caused the largest headache):
1) Wednesday, Jan. 1
2) Saturday, Nov. 1
3) Sunday, May 18
4) Saturday, July 5
5) Sunday, Feb. 23
6) Sunday, Sept. 28
7) Sunday, Oct. 26
8) Sunday, July 20
9) Sunday, Sept. 14
10) Sunday, March 16
It is often said that the way you spend New Year’s Eve is the way you will spend the rest of your year. Lucky for us, that isn’t said of New Year’s Day.
