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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
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The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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🇳🇱 Netherlands · metro 1.2M · 4,531 venues mapped

Amsterdam

Where Amsterdam places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 123 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Amsterdam in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇳🇱 Purmerend 15 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 111 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Amsterdam does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink4,531 places mapped
11:30–22:00
0006121824
18%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
Shops & errands1,060 places mapped
08:00–20:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
80h
open per week
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
154
umbrella days a year
37.8 m
of rain since 1981
14
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
280.4 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:29
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.8 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
14,144
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAmsterdam RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 17.8% 123 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 18%🇯🇵 Hanno 17.9%🇺🇸 Oxford 17.9%🇫🇮 Tampere 17.9%Amsterdam🇨🇱 Valdivia 17.8%🇲🇦 Casablanca 17.7%🇪🇸 Cádiz 17.6%🇯🇵 Miyazaki 17.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 59.5 h 183 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Lagos 59.8 h🇬🇧 Newbury 59.8 h🇫🇷 Ajaccio 59.5 h🇪🇸 Almeria 59.5 hAmsterdam🇦🇺 Brisbane 59.5 h🇨🇴 Cali 59.5 h🇬🇧 Falkirk 59.5 h🇮🇹 Genoa 59.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.4% 418 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Nantes 5.5%🇹🇭 Pattaya 5.5%🇷🇺 Stavropol 5.5%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 5.5%Amsterdam🇦🇹 Bregenz 5.4%🇩🇪 Flensburg 5.4%🇧🇷 Recife 5.4%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 5.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.3% 361 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Penza 2.4%🇷🇺 Serpukhov 2.4%🇺🇸 Tuscaloosa 2.4%🇺🇸 West Haven 2.4%Amsterdam🇨🇴 Armenia 2.3%🇬🇧 Belfast 2.3%🇺🇸 Camarillo 2.3%🇮🇪 Dublin 2.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.2% 229 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 0.3%🇫🇷 Toulon 0.3%🇩🇪 Ulm 0.3%🇦🇹 Vienna 0.3%Amsterdam🇮🇹 Bologna 0.2%🇫🇷 Lyon 0.2%🇸🇪 Malmo 0.2%🇫🇷 Nantes 0.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 74.9% 216 of 1,704 🇮🇹 L'Aquila 75%🇨🇱 Rancagua 75%🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 75%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 75%Amsterdam🇸🇪 Linköping 74.7%🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 74.4%🇳🇦 Windhoek 74.4%🇪🇨 Ambato 74.2%

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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