37 ‘Date Picker’ Design Examples

Also referred to as: Calendar Date Picker

What’s this? Here you’ll find 37 “Date Picker” full-page screenshots annotated with research-based UX insights, sourced from Baymard’s UX benchmark of 250 e-commerce sites. (Note: this is less than 1% of the full research catalog.)

Users shopping for tours and experiences or travel accommodations often already have a specific date or, minimally, a date range in mind. Thus, once they have identified a potentially suitable tour and experience or travel accommodation, they will likely turn their attention to the calendar date picker to confirm whether it’s available to book for their preferred date. However, as observed during testing, when the calendar date picker does not adequately or accurately communicate availability, users have to spend additional time and effort verifying this information, leading to frustration and disappointment — and potential abandonment.

More ‘Date Picker’ Insights

During testing, users often needed additional information about a tour and attempted to use the calendar date picker in order to access this, but were stopped when the calendar date picker didn’t link to tour information — necessitating users to take a long detour to attempt to find the information they’re looking for.
Learn More: Besides exploring the 37 “Date Picker” design examples below, you may also want to read our related articles “3 High-Level Takeaways from 1,700 Hours Testing Travel Tours and Experience Booking Sites” and “Travel Accommodations UX: 3 High-Level UX Takeaways from 992 Hours of Testing Leading Travel Accommodations Sites”.
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