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🇺🇸 United States · metro 63k · 260 venues mapped

Dearborn Heights

Where Dearborn Heights 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 38 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Southgate 15 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 350 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Dearborn Heights 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 & drink260 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
Shops & errands158 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
53%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
18
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
157
umbrella days a year
38.3 m
of rain since 1981
524
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2009.5 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:04
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.3 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
17,971
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDearborn Heights RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.9% 201 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Utsunomiya 10%🇫🇷 Vannes 10%🇨🇳 Wuhan 10%🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 9.9%Dearborn Heights🇳🇱 Enschede 9.9%🇺🇸 Kansas City 9.9%🇫🇷 Le Mans 9.9%🇺🇸 Palm Desert 9.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇲🇩 Chișinău 91 h🇺🇸 Columbia 91 h🇺🇸 Cookeville 91 h🇺🇸 Dayton 91 hDearborn Heights🇺🇸 Detroit 91 h🇭🇷 Dubrovnik 91 h🇿🇦 Durban 91 h🇹🇯 Dushanbe 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 32.4% 162 of 1,878 🇺🇸 St. Louis 32.8%🇲🇲 Mawlamyine 32.7%🇺🇸 Norcross 32.7%🇱🇦 Luang Prabang 32.5%Dearborn Heights🇺🇸 Philadelphia 32.4%🇺🇸 Cape Coral 32.3%🇺🇸 Cedar Rapids 32.2%🇦🇺 Geelong 32.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.4% 370 of 1,878 🇺🇿 Bukhara 1.4%🇺🇸 Chester 1.4%🇺🇸 Columbia 1.4%🇺🇸 Conway 1.4%Dearborn Heights🇳🇱 Deventer 1.4%🇺🇸 El Paso 1.4%🇺🇸 Findlay 1.4%🇺🇸 Gainesville 1.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Cáceres 0%🇪🇸 Córdoba 0%🇨🇴 Cúcuta 0%🇵🇦 David 0%Dearborn Heights🇩🇪 Dessau 0%🇩🇪 Detmold 0%🇳🇱 Deventer 0%🇫🇷 Douai 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.1% 38 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Swindon 96.2%🇹🇼 Taitung 96.2%🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 96.1%🇺🇸 Brockton 96.1%Dearborn Heights🇺🇸 Joliet 96.1%🇸🇦 Riyadh 96.1%🇮🇹 Anzio 96%🇮🇩 Banjarmasin 96%

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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