🇦🇺 Australia · metro 1.4M · 4,770 venues mapped

Brisbane

Where Brisbane places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 48 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Brisbane in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.

Nearest city 🇦🇺 Gold Coast 71 km Nearest written profile 🇦🇺 Sydney 📖 733 km

Typical weather

1981–present

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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit

Best time to visit Jul, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues

Food & drink4,770 places mapped

09:00–21:00

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open past midnight

82%

open on Sundays

60h

open per week

take a midday break

open 24/7

Shops & errands2,134 places mapped

07:00–21:00

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open past midnight

95%

open on Sundays

87h

open per week

16%

open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured

muggy days a year

nights/yr the bedroom never cools

days over 30 °C, of 16,629

volcanoes within 100 km

1331.3 km

to McBride Volcanic Province

quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)

17:01

winter sunset (solar approx.)

13.9 h

longest day of the year

public holidays, 2024

3,606

km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues

Measure	Brisbane	Rank	Nearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink	5.5%	245 of 1,878	🇵🇱 Tychy 5.6%🇨🇭 Zurich 5.6%🇩🇪 Bamberg 5.5%🇧🇳 Bandar Seri Begawan 5.5%Brisbane🇩🇪 Hamburg 5.5%🇫🇷 Marignane 5.5%🇩🇪 Osnabrück 5.5%🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen 5.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink	59.5 h	183 of 1,878	🇬🇧 Newbury 59.8 h🇫🇷 Ajaccio 59.5 h🇪🇸 Almeria 59.5 h🇳🇱 Amsterdam 59.5 hBrisbane🇨🇴 Cali 59.5 h🇬🇧 Falkirk 59.5 h🇮🇹 Genoa 59.5 h🇦🇺 Gold Coast 59.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink	39.4%	101 of 1,878	🇺🇸 Akron 39.5%🇺🇸 Detroit 39.5%🇺🇸 Omaha 39.5%🇺🇸 Santa Clarita 39.5%Brisbane🇬🇹 Totonicapán 39.4%🇺🇸 Holland 39.3%🇺🇸 Joliet 39.3%🇺🇸 Lewisville 39.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break	6%	324 of 1,878	🇧🇷 Curitiba 6.1%🇬🇧 Keighley 6.1%🇺🇸 Livermore 6.1%🇸🇪 Malmo 6.1%Brisbane🇮🇪 Cork 6%🇩🇰 Esbjerg 6%🇷🇺 Kaluga 6%🇺🇸 Lowell 6%
Never close at all% open 24/7	5.5%	176 of 1,878	🇸🇻 Sonsonate 5.6%🇷🇸 Subotica 5.6%🇺🇦 Ternopil 5.6%🇨🇳 Wenjiang 5.6%Brisbane🇺🇸 Huntsville 5.5%🇺🇸 Montgomery 5.5%🇺🇸 Toledo 5.5%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 5.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail	95.1%	48 of 1,704	🇺🇸 Manhattan 95.2%🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 95.2%🇺🇸 San Francisco 95.2%🇬🇧 Brighton 95.1%Brisbane🇺🇸 Fort Wayne 95.1%🇺🇸 Lafayette 95.1%🇬🇧 London 95.1%🇨🇳 Nanjing 95.1%

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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