The Part-Time City
Cities that work fewer hours than you do.
The all-day café is a genre of urban life, and it needs a city willing to stay open long enough to host one. These cities have made a different choice, and they have made it decisively.
Full standings
median hours per week that food & drink venues are open · 113 cities- 1 🇧🇷 Florianópolis 42 h/week
- 2 🇧🇪 Brussels 49 h/week
- 3 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 53 h/week
- 4 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 54 h/week
- 5 🇨🇭 Geneva 56 h/week
- 🇦🇺 Melbourne 56 h/week
- 🇲🇺 Port Louis 56 h/week
- 🇮🇹 Turin 56 h/week
- 6 🇩🇪 Munich 58 h/week
- 7 🇫🇷 Paris 58 h/week
- 8 🇮🇹 Milan 59 h/week
- 9 🇳🇱 Amsterdam 60 h/week
- 🇦🇺 Brisbane 60 h/week
- 🇩🇪 Frankfurt 60 h/week
- 🇨🇭 Zurich 60 h/week
- 10 🇦🇺 Sydney 60 h/week
- 11 🇦🇺 Perth 60 h/week
- 12 🇳🇿 Auckland 61 h/week
- 🇪🇸 Valencia 61 h/week
- 13 🇺🇾 Montevideo 63 h/week
- 🇳🇴 Oslo 63 h/week
- 🇹🇼 Taipei 63 h/week
- 14 🇫🇮 Turku 64 h/week
- 15 🇩🇰 Copenhagen 65 h/week
- 🇮🇪 Dublin 65 h/week
- 16 🇩🇪 Berlin 66 h/week
- 🇸🇪 Stockholm 66 h/week
- 17 🇲🇽 Guadalajara 67 h/week
- 18 🇯🇵 Osaka 68 h/week
- 🇺🇸 San Francisco 68 h/week
- 19 🇪🇸 Barcelona 69 h/week
- 🇫🇮 Oulu 69 h/week
- 🇦🇹 Vienna 69 h/week
- 20 🇭🇺 Budapest 70 h/week
- 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 70 h/week
- 🇲🇾 George Town 70 h/week
- 🇵🇱 Kraków 70 h/week
- 🇪🇸 Málaga 70 h/week
- 🇨🇦 Montreal 70 h/week
- 🇧🇷 São Paulo 70 h/week
- 🇺🇸 Seattle 70 h/week
- 🇨🇦 Vancouver 70 h/week
- 🇵🇱 Wrocław 70 h/week
- 21 🇫🇮 Helsinki 71 h/week
- 🇮🇹 Rome 71 h/week
- 22 🇸🇰 Bratislava 72 h/week
- 🇨🇦 Calgary 72 h/week
- 🇯🇵 Fukuoka 72 h/week
- 🇨🇴 Medellín 72 h/week
- 🇵🇱 Warsaw 72 h/week
- 23 🇵🇹 Lisbon 74 h/week
- 🇬🇧 London 74 h/week
- 🇪🇪 Tallinn 74 h/week
- 24 🇨🇷 San José 74 h/week
- 25 🇲🇽 Mexico City 75 h/week
- 🇵🇹 Porto 75 h/week
- 🇨🇱 Santiago 75 h/week
- 26 🇱🇻 Riga 76 h/week
- 27 🇹🇭 Bangkok 77 h/week
- 28 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 77 h/week
- 🇸🇮 Ljubljana 77 h/week
- 🇪🇸 Madrid 77 h/week
- 🇨🇿 Prague 77 h/week
- 🇸🇬 Singapore 77 h/week
- 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 77 h/week
- 🇲🇹 Valletta 77 h/week
- 🇱🇹 Vilnius 77 h/week
- 29 🇧🇬 Sofia 77 h/week
- 30 🇨🇾 Limassol 78 h/week
- 🇯🇵 Tokyo 78 h/week
- 31 🇨🇦 Toronto 79 h/week
- 32 🇨🇳 Chengdu 80 h/week
- 🇺🇸 New York 80 h/week
- 33 🇰🇷 Busan 81 h/week
- 🇵🇹 Funchal 81 h/week
- 🇲🇽 Mérida 81 h/week
- 🇵🇦 Panama City 81 h/week
- 🇰🇷 Seoul 81 h/week
- 34 🇺🇸 Los Angeles 82 h/week
- 35 🇪🇸 Bilbao 82 h/week
- 36 🇺🇸 Austin 83 h/week
- 37 🇷🇴 Bucharest 84 h/week
- 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 84 h/week
- 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 84 h/week
- 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 84 h/week
- 🇰🇪 Nairobi 84 h/week
- 🇬🇪 Tbilisi 84 h/week
- 38 🇿🇦 Cape Town 85 h/week
- 39 🇨🇳 Hangzhou 88 h/week
- 🇨🇳 Shanghai 88 h/week
- 40 🇬🇷 Athens 90 h/week
- 41 🇷🇸 Belgrade 91 h/week
- 🇷🇼 Kigali 91 h/week
- 42 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 93 h/week
- 43 🇨🇳 Hefei 93 h/week
- 44 🇹🇷 Istanbul 95 h/week
- 🇴🇲 Muscat 95 h/week
- 45 🇭🇷 Zagreb 95 h/week
- 46 🇰🇿 Almaty 96 h/week
- 47 🇦🇲 Yerevan 97 h/week
- 48 🇹🇷 Antalya 98 h/week
- 🇰🇿 Astana 98 h/week
- 🇺🇸 Miami 98 h/week
- 🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 98 h/week
- 49 🇻🇳 Hanoi 102 h/week
- 🇭🇷 Split 102 h/week
- 50 🇧🇭 Manama 103 h/week
- 51 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi 105 h/week
- 🇦🇪 Dubai 105 h/week
- 🇦🇪 Ras Al Khaimah 105 h/week
- 🇦🇱 Tirana 105 h/week
- 52 🇶🇦 Doha 112 h/week
- 🇲🇪 Podgorica 112 h/week
A ranking of evidence, not of worth — the winner is invited to wear it proudly. Compare any two contenders head-to-head.