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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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🇺🇸 United States · metro 229k · 1,485 venues mapped

Charlotte

Where Charlotte 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 47 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Spartanburg 104 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 951 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Charlotte 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 & drink1,485 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
19%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
82h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands430 places mapped
07:00–23:00
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2%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
72
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
129
umbrella days a year
52.7 m
of rain since 1981
4,263
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2298.4 km
to Carrizozo
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:15
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.5 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,428
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCharlotte RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 18.6% 116 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Kaliningrad 18.9%🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 18.8%🇷🇸 Novi Sad 18.7%🇺🇸 Wichita Falls 18.7%Charlotte🇵🇹 Coimbra 18.6%🇨🇭 Solothurn 18.6%🇷🇺 Tver 18.6%🇷🇺 Tyumen 18.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 82.5 h 89 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Taranto 83 h🇧🇷 Vitória 83 h🇺🇸 Austin 82.9 h🇺🇸 Lansing 82.6 hCharlotte🇺🇸 Flagstaff 82.5 h🇺🇸 Harrisonburg 82.5 h🇺🇸 Levittown 82.5 h🇺🇸 Milwaukee 82.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 30.9% 175 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Basingstoke 31%🇺🇸 Bossier City 31%🇺🇸 Normal 31%🇦🇷 San Miguel de Tucumán 31%Charlotte🇺🇸 Norwalk 30.9%🇮🇹 Savona 30.8%🇺🇸 Antioch 30.7%🇮🇹 Bergamo 30.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.9% 375 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Umeå 1%🇺🇸 Waco 1%🇺🇸 Albuquerque 0.9%🇿🇦 Cape Town 0.9%Charlotte🇺🇦 Chernivtsi 0.9%🇬🇹 Guatemala City 0.9%🇺🇸 Harrisonburg 0.9%🇺🇸 Houston 0.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.6% 185 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Makhachkala 4.7%🇺🇸 St. Louis 4.7%🇱🇹 Vilnius 4.7%🇺🇸 Buffalo 4.6%Charlotte🇺🇸 Dale City 4.6%🇬🇧 East Kilbride 4.6%🇺🇸 Kansas City 4.6%🇹🇭 Khon Kaen 4.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95.2% 47 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Daytona Beach 95.3%🇷🇸 Kragujevac 95.3%🇺🇦 Rivne 95.3%🇺🇸 Asheville 95.2%Charlotte🇺🇦 Cherkasy 95.2%🇩🇰 Esbjerg 95.2%🇺🇸 Fresno 95.2%🇺🇸 Las Cruces 95.2%

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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