Hi, I have experience with planning meetups. It usually goes in waves. There will be one wave of people who will plan meetups during the month or so before the 180-day mark. There is a second wave of people who will plan during the weeks before the 60-day mark. After that, I've found it's more difficult to find people to meet up, but there can be a few who will plan closer to the arrival date. Also if you're looking to meet up with locals, many of them actually prefer to plan closer to your arrival date -- since they aren't traveling for this, they are less inclined to plan much ahead.