--- title: Dating: Biggest Dating Day of the Year Is Coming Soon description: The biggest day for dating in 2017 falls on New Year's Day, according to the dating app Hinge canonical: https://time.com/4606764/new-years-dating-hinge/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-20T14:00:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:37.546Z og:title: The Single Biggest Dating Day of the Year Is Coming Soon og:description: Time to take care of your New Year's resolution og:url: https://time.com/4606764/new-years-dating-hinge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Single Biggest Dating Day of the Year Is Coming Soon twitter:description: Time to take care of your New Year's resolution twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Single Biggest Dating Day of the Year Is Coming Soon by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Dec 20, 2016 2:00 PM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Dec 20, 2016 2:00 PM UTC The biggest day for dating in 2017 falls on New Year’s Day, according to the dating app [Hinge](https://hinge.co/). Hinge said it [predicts a surge](https://medium.com/@Hinge/the-biggest-day-in-dating-20baf320f065#.qjs3l88pz) in new users on Jan. 1, citing search trends and days when the app is most popular. Google Trends data from the first week of January, dating back to 2012, shows that the search term “dating” peaks during the first week of the new year. For Hinge, New Year’s Day 2016 saw a 35% spike in new users. In 2015, the app saw a 22% spike and a 64% increase in phone numbers exchanged among users. Next year, the New Year’s bump has an added bonus for Hinge: the holiday falls on a Sunday, the most popular day for app users seeking a connection to have a conversation. Hinge found that on Sundays, people have a 36% higher response rate to messages and 20% more conversations. As the Sunday trend collides with New Year’s Day, Hinge predicts people will join the service at three times the normal rate. For those seeking new love in the new year, [Hinge advises](https://medium.com/@Hinge/learn-more-about-hinge-here-730a1c5c6627#.ehw9no8ew) peppering your profile with confessions, self-deprecation and revelations of a spontaneous side. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4606764/new-years-dating-hinge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4606764/new-years-dating-hinge/"},"headline":"The Single Biggest Dating Day of the Year Is Coming Soon","datePublished":"2016-12-20T14:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:37.546Z","description":"Time to take care of your New Year's resolution","url":"https://time.com/4606764/new-years-dating-hinge/","keywords":["Newsfeed","relationships","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4606764/new-years-dating-hinge/","name":"The Single Biggest Dating Day of the Year Is Coming Soon"}}]}] ```