nights vs nighttime

nights

adv
  • at night (during night-time, especially on a regular basis) 

nighttime

adj
  • Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night. 

  • Happening during the night. 

noun
  • The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night. 

How often have the words nights and nighttime occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )