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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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 56k · 933 venues mapped

Aschaffenburg

Where Aschaffenburg places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is vanish at lunch, where it ranks 211 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Darmstadt 38 km Nearest written profile 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 📖 221 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, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink933 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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5%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
19%
take a midday break
Shops & errands527 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
24%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
6%
open 24/7
Services201 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
3%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week
42%
take a midday break
Culture192 places mapped
11:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
43%
open on Sundays
10h
open per week
5%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
145
umbrella days a year
34.4 m
of rain since 1981
433
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
165.7 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:24
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.4 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,811
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAschaffenburg RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.9% 251 of 1,878 🇨🇺 Santiago de Cuba 5%🇦🇺 Sydney 5%🇵🇱 Wrocław 5%🇩🇪 Würzburg 5%Aschaffenburg🇫🇷 Bayonne 4.9%🇧🇷 Brasilia 4.9%🇬🇧 Cambridge 4.9%🇺🇸 Davenport 4.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 50.2 h 223 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Le Mans 50.8 h🇫🇷 Maurepas 50.8 h🇧🇷 Blumenau 50.5 h🇧🇷 Campinas 50.5 hAschaffenburg🇩🇪 Gerlingen 50.2 h🇦🇺 Launceston 50.2 h🇨🇭 Basel 50 h🇩🇪 Bremerhaven 50 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.5% 407 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Krefeld 6.6%🇩🇪 Würzburg 6.6%🇹🇷 Antalya 6.5%🇵🇪 Arequipa 6.5%Aschaffenburg🇵🇰 Islamabad 6.5%🇬🇷 Rethymno 6.5%🇸🇪 Uppsala 6.5%🇩🇪 Bielefeld 6.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 19.1% 211 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Guildford 19.4%🇵🇹 Lisbon 19.4%🇮🇹 Viterbo 19.3%🇪🇸 Girona 19.2%Aschaffenburg🇮🇹 Salerno 19.1%🇮🇹 San Giuseppe Vesuviano 19.1%🇧🇪 Verviers 19.1%🇵🇹 Faro 19%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.5% 226 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Trieste 0.6%🇪🇸 Zaragoza 0.6%🇩🇰 Aalborg 0.5%🇫🇷 Annecy 0.5%Aschaffenburg🇵🇹 Barreiro 0.5%🇮🇹 Bergamo 0.5%🇩🇪 Bonn 0.5%🇵🇹 Braga 0.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 23.7% 489 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Reus 24.1%🇩🇪 Darmstadt 24%🇩🇪 Iserlohn 23.9%🇨🇭 Kreuzlingen 23.9%Aschaffenburg🇩🇪 Neuwied 23.6%🇩🇪 Bensheim 23.5%🇩🇪 Görlitz 23.1%🇩🇪 Heidelberg 23.1%

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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