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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
Everything else3
The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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Augsburg

Where Augsburg 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 173 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇩🇪 Munich 📖 56 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Augsburg 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 & drink1,726 places mapped
11:00–22:00
0006121824
5%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
24%
take a midday break
Shops & errands1,071 places mapped
07:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
22%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
Culture549 places mapped
10:00–19:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
44%
open on Sundays
26h
open per week
Services417 places mapped
08:30–18:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
5%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
29%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
147
umbrella days a year
36.8 m
of rain since 1981
114
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
355.3 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:24
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.1 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,650
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAugsburg RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.4% 246 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Osnabrück 5.5%🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen 5.5%🇬🇧 Southampton 5.5%🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 5.5%Augsburg🇺🇸 Campbell 5.4%🇧🇷 Campinas 5.4%🇫🇷 Colmar 5.4%🇹🇭 Ko Samui 5.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 56 h 197 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Adelaide 56 h🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 56 h🇯🇵 Aomori 56 h🇵🇾 Asuncion 56 hAugsburg🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 56 h🇮🇹 Bologna 56 h🇩🇪 Bonn 56 h🇮🇹 Brescia 56 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.8% 394 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Tyumen 7.9%🇫🇷 Valence 7.9%🇪🇸 Valladolid 7.9%🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 7.8%Augsburg🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 7.8%🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 7.8%🇦🇷 Cordoba 7.7%🇫🇷 Douai 7.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 23.5% 173 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 23.8%🇩🇪 Erlangen 23.7%🇫🇷 Marignane 23.6%🇮🇹 Ravenna 23.6%Augsburg🇪🇸 Málaga 23.5%🇮🇹 Riccione 23.5%🇮🇹 Tivoli 23.5%🇲🇨 Monaco 23.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.6% 225 of 1,878 🇹🇼 Tainan 0.7%🇮🇹 Verona 0.7%🇳🇿 Wellington 0.7%🇭🇺 Érd 0.7%Augsburg🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 0.6%🇫🇷 Cannes 0.6%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 0.6%🇩🇪 Dresden 0.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 22.3% 498 of 1,704 🇪🇸 San Fernando 22.7%🇩🇪 Remscheid 22.6%🇩🇪 Landshut 22.5%🇩🇪 Schwerin 22.4%Augsburg🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 22.2%🇩🇪 Detmold 22.1%🇩🇪 Kleve 21.9%🇩🇪 Rosenheim 21.8%

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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