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Mobile services in Los Angeles, California139 open appointments right now

Every appointment listed here is an hour a Los Angeles business has free this week — a job that cancelled, or a day that has not filled. The price is the one the business set. Booking one holds it; nothing is paid on this site yet, so you settle that price with the business directly.

All 139 are sample listings we seeded ourselves rather than a business trading today. Each one is labelled where it appears.

Top services in Los Angeles right now

Ranked by how many appointments each trade has open in Los Angeles at this moment, and by nothing else. It is not a popularity list and it moves through the day. Each link leads to that trade everywhere Roundtheway covers, which is more than this one place.

Neighbourhoods

Every neighbourhood, with what is open in it

Every service

Automotive and vehicle

Home and property

Pet care

Personal care and beauty

Food and drink

Tech and repair

Professional and personal

Pop-up retail

Why mobile work suits Los Angeles

Los Angeles has a Mediterranean climate: a long dry season from roughly May to October and most of the year's rain in a handful of winter months. Dust and pollen settle on cars, windows and solar panels through the dry months, and the first rains wash them into gutters and drains — which is why so much of the work listed here is cleaning of one kind or another, and why it clusters seasonally.

Most of the housing in the city is low-rise, with driveways, yards and street parking rather than loading bays. That is what makes a van practical: the person doing the work can bring water, power and tools to the address instead of the address coming to a shop.

None of that is a claim about Roundtheway. What this site does is narrower and easier to check: a business posts the hours it has free, at the price it sets, and you book one of them. Openings appear when a job is cancelled or a gap opens between two booked jobs, so the list on this page is different in the afternoon from what it was in the morning.