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The weather6
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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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🇪🇸 Spain · metro 3.9M · 8,620 venues mapped

Barcelona

Where Barcelona 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 113 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Barcelona in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇪🇸 Sant Boi de Llobregat 11 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Valencia 📖 302 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink8,620 places mapped
11:30–23:30
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19%
open past midnight
80%
open on Sundays
69h
open per week
22%
take a midday break
Shops & errands3,510 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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2%
open past midnight
54%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
6%
open 24/7
Services1,809 places mapped
09:00–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
18%
open on Sundays
58h
open per week
28%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Culture1,162 places mapped
10:00–20:30
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2%
open past midnight
33%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
26%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
2
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
92
umbrella days a year
23.7 m
of rain since 1981
1,822
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
92.2 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:25
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.2 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,154
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBarcelona RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 18.9% 113 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Amora 19%🇪🇸 Bilbao 19%🇷🇺 Samara 19%🇪🇸 Santa Pola 19%Barcelona🇷🇺 Kaliningrad 18.9%🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 18.8%🇷🇸 Novi Sad 18.7%🇺🇸 Wichita Falls 18.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 69 h 144 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Weymouth 69.5 h🇭🇺 Érd 69.5 h🇲🇽 Puebla 69.2 h🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 69.1 hBarcelona🇨🇿 Brno 69 h🇵🇾 Ciudad del Este 69 h🇮🇱 Jerusalem 69 h🇪🇸 Lleida 69 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 14.6% 326 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 14.7%🇨🇭 Solothurn 14.7%🇪🇸 Torrejón de Ardoz 14.7%🇬🇧 Wigan 14.7%Barcelona🇬🇧 Bournemouth 14.6%🇶🇦 Doha 14.6%🇭🇺 Pécs 14.6%🇬🇧 Chester-le-Street 14.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 22.4% 184 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Ingolstadt 22.6%🇪🇸 Roquetas de Mar 22.6%🇮🇹 Naples 22.5%🇮🇹 Rome 22.5%Barcelona🇪🇸 Donostia / San Sebastián 22.4%🇦🇷 Mendoza 22.4%🇩🇪 Schweinfurt 22.3%🇵🇪 Piura 22.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.3% 228 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 0.4%🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 0.3%🇫🇷 Angers 0.3%🇳🇱 Arnhem 0.3%Barcelona🇸🇰 Bratislava 0.3%🇩🇪 Chemnitz 0.3%🇵🇱 Gdansk 0.3%🇩🇪 Gerlingen 0.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 53.6% 356 of 1,704 🇧🇷 Recife 53.9%🇮🇹 Trieste 53.8%🇫🇷 Albi 53.7%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 53.7%Barcelona🇫🇷 Besançon 53.6%🇵🇱 Katowice 53.6%🇵🇱 Warsaw 53.6%🇧🇪 Mechelen 53.4%

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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