Day Planner: One Perfect Day Anywhere, Hour by Hour

A free Saturday, a layover or one day in a new city. Enter where, the date, when you start and finish, where you start from and the kind of day. It picks the best sights for that style, orders them sensibly, checks each against its opening hours for that weekday and real travel times, and puts lunch and dinner nearby.

You get a page for your phone, a PDF, a calendar event, official entry fees where the attraction publishes them, experiences you can book and a short budget.

What you get

Field	What it holds
Hour by hour	Times, travel between stops, opening hours checked.
Meals	Lunch and dinner close to the day's stops.
Fees and experiences	Entry prices from official pages; tours to book.
Files	Page, PDF, calendar event and data.

What people use it for

• City breaks: The best of one day in a new city.
• Layovers: A day between flights, start and end times respected.
• Locals: A fresh Saturday at home.

How to use it

1. Enter the destination, the date and your hours.
2. Add where you start, who is going and the style.
3. Run it: the day, hour by hour.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
Where?	Lisbon, Portugal	City or region with its country.
Date, start, end	2027-03-16, 09:00, 21:00	The day and its hours.
Starting from	Baixa, Lisbon	Your hotel or address (optional).
Trip style	culture, food and wine	The kind of day.

Output

Each result is one row in the run's dataset (download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or read it through the API). An example row (values shortened):

{
  "kind": "day-plan",
  "destination": "Lisbon, Portugal",
  "stops": 7,
  "status": "validated",
  "tripUrl": "https://example.com/trip.html",
  "pdfUrl": "https://example.com/trip.pdf"
}

Example from a real Lisbon run on 19 October 2026 (a market, the botanical garden, lunch, the castle, a sunset viewpoint and dinner; 104 requests).

Pricing

• $1.99 per validated day plan, charged once the page, PDF, calendar and data are delivered.
• Model use is billed by Apify at cost on top (about $0.27 in tests).

What typical jobs cost at the list price:

Job	Cost
One day	$1.99 plus about $0.27 of model use
Failed validation	$0

On Apify's Scale and Business plans the per-event prices are lower (Store discounts). Set Maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached: you never pay more than that.

Tips

• Walk is the default; choose taxi or car for spread-out cities.
• Name must-sees to anchor the day.

Use it through the API

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("zaiq/day-planner").call(run_input={"destination": "Cape Town, South Africa", "date": "2026-12-14", "startTime": "09:00", "endTime": "19:30", "tripStyles": ["family"], "childrenAges": [7, 10], "transport": "car", "currency": "ZAR"})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(row)

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('zaiq/day-planner').call({"destination": "Cape Town, South Africa", "date": "2026-12-14", "startTime": "09:00", "endTime": "19:30", "tripStyles": ["family"], "childrenAges": [7, 10], "transport": "car", "currency": "ZAR"});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

HTTP (one call, results back)

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/zaiq~day-planner/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"destination": "Cape Town, South Africa", "date": "2026-12-14", "startTime": "09:00", "endTime": "19:30", "tripStyles": ["family"], "childrenAges": [7, 10], "transport": "car", "currency": "ZAR"}'

Integrations and schedules

• Schedules: run it every hour, day or week from the Apify Console (Schedules) and keep a history of results.
• Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable: connect it through Apify's integrations, or send each finished run to a webhook.
• Datasets: results stay in the run's dataset; export them or read them by API whenever you need them.

Use it with AI agents (MCP)

Add Apify's MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client. The agent can find this Actor and run it for you: ask it for "Plan a day in Lisbon on Tuesday from 9 to 9 for food and culture, starting in Baixa". AI agents can also pay for runs directly through Apify's agentic payments.

Limits

• No login, CAPTCHA solving or forged challenge tokens; a source can withhold public data, and the run says so.
• Prices are public snapshots for your dates and party, not held reservations; check again before booking.
• Holiday opening hours can differ; public holidays are flagged.

FAQ

Why not the Itinerary Planner?

For one day this is quicker and cheaper; the Itinerary Planner plans whole trips.

Related Actors from Zaiq

• holiday-planner: the whole holiday in one run: stays, days, car hire, experiences and a budget

Support

Questions, a site that changed, or a field you need? Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab: we answer there, usually within a day.

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Also found as: day planner, one day itinerary, what to do today, city day plan, layover plan, day trip planner.