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The weather6
The Sauna You Can’t LeaveThe Bedroom That Never CoolsThe Umbrella EconomyRain, By The MetreSixteen Thousand DaysThe Year Without a Window
The hours it keeps6
The Cinderella ClauseThe Early Bedtime AwardThe Sunday Ghost TownThe Breakfast DesertThe Great Lunch VanishingThe Part-Time City
Getting out5
The Great Escape IndexHardest City to Leave (In a Hurry)The Domestic BubbleThe Hibernating AirportThe Perth Meridian
The ground and the sky4
The Wobbliest GroundThe Volcano PartyThe Volcano Next DoorThe 3 p.m. Sunset Club
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Alphen aan den Rijn

Where Alphen aan den Rijn places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 197 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇳🇱 Leiden 12 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Amsterdam 📖 32 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink264 places mapped
12:00–22:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
Shops & errands166 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
71%
open on Sundays
80h
open per week
6%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
158
umbrella days a year
37.9 m
of rain since 1981
28
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
266.2 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:31
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.8 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
14,157
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAlphen aan den Rijn RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.5% 215 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Offenburg 8.6%🇵🇹 Ponta Delgada 8.6%🇫🇷 Toulon 8.6%🇷🇺 Vyborg 8.6%Alphen aan den Rijn🇺🇸 Aurora 8.5%🇨🇳 Beijing 8.5%🇺🇸 Blue Springs 8.5%🇺🇸 Camarillo 8.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 56 h 197 of 1,878 🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 56.5 h🇬🇧 Littlehampton 56.2 h🇩🇰 Aalborg 56 h🇦🇺 Adelaide 56 hAlphen aan den Rijn🇯🇵 Aomori 56 h🇵🇾 Asuncion 56 h🇩🇪 Augsburg 56 h🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 56 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 3.4% 438 of 1,878 🇰🇬 Bishkek 3.5%🇩🇪 Halle (Saale) 3.5%🇩🇪 Magdeburg 3.5%🇩🇰 Aalborg 3.4%Alphen aan den Rijn🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 3.4%🇦🇿 Baku 3.4%🇺🇦 Cherkasy 3.4%🇩🇪 Gießen 3.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.7% 367 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Niterói 1.8%🇸🇰 Trnava 1.8%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 1.8%🇬🇧 Wakefield 1.8%Alphen aan den Rijn🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 1.7%🇺🇸 Annapolis 1.7%🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 1.7%🇺🇸 Aurora 1.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.7% 214 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Rome 1.8%🇸🇰 Trnava 1.8%🇨🇴 Tunja 1.8%🇬🇧 Aberdeen 1.7%Alphen aan den Rijn🇬🇧 Bracknell 1.7%🇩🇪 Bremen 1.7%🇬🇧 Colchester 1.7%🇮🇹 Forlì 1.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 70.8% 245 of 1,704 🇵🇹 Évora 71.1%🇮🇳 Kochi 71%🇮🇹 Lucca 71%🇮🇹 Verona 70.9%Alphen aan den Rijn🇵🇱 Elbląg 70.8%🇧🇷 Ponta Porã 70.8%🇭🇷 Rijeka 70.7%🇨🇴 Duitama 70.6%

The same questions are asked of the 126 cities with a written profile, where each one gets its method and its full standings: kitchens open past midnight, hours open per week, open before 8 a.m., vanish at lunch, shops open on sunday.

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