🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · metro 4.6M · 6,132 venues mapped

Dubai

Where Dubai 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 5 of 1,704.

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

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi 📖 115 km

Typical weather

1981–present

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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit

Best time to visit Jan, Feb, Mar, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues

Food & drink6,132 places mapped

08:30–24:00

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27%

open past midnight

99%

open on Sundays

105h

open per week

18%

open 24/7

Shops & errands3,545 places mapped

07:00–24:00

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11%

open past midnight

99%

open on Sundays

119h

open per week

38%

open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured

159

muggy days a year

202

nights/yr the bedroom never cools

days over 30 °C, of 16,629

volcanoes within 100 km

1156.7 km

to Bir Borhut

0.6

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

17:34

winter sunset (solar approx.)

13.7 h

longest day of the year

public holidays, 2024

9,026

km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues

Measure	Dubai	Rank	Nearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink	27.4%	54 of 1,878	🇪🇸 Málaga 28.4%🇮🇹 Messina 28%🇦🇷 Cordoba 27.9%🇮🇹 Brindisi 27.6%Dubai🇮🇹 Salerno 27.3%🇪🇸 Madrid 27.2%🇰🇷 Mokpo 26.7%🇺🇸 Muncie 26.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink	105 h	18 of 1,878	🇹🇷 Alanya 105 h🇲🇪 Budva 105 h🇺🇸 Chicago Heights 105 h🇻🇳 Cần Thơ 105 hDubai🇻🇳 Huế 105 h🇺🇸 Jacksonville 105 h🇺🇸 Jonesboro 105 h🇺🇬 Kampala 105 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink	16.3%	309 of 1,878	🇪🇸 Ferrol 16.4%🇨🇿 Ostrava 16.4%🇬🇧 St Albans 16.4%🇺🇸 Charleston 16.3%Dubai🇬🇧 Gillingham 16.3%🇮🇹 Matera 16.3%🇮🇳 Puducherry 16.3%🇪🇨 Riobamba 16.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break	4.2%	342 of 1,878	🇳🇱 Venlo 4.3%🇻🇳 Vũng Tàu 4.3%🇺🇸 Winston-Salem 4.3%🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 4.3%Dubai🇧🇷 Londrina 4.2%🇺🇸 Palm Desert 4.2%🇬🇧 Slough 4.2%🇨🇴 Cartagena 4.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7	17.9%	67 of 1,878	🇷🇺 Cherepovets 18.2%🇬🇧 King's Lynn 18.2%🇷🇺 Serpukhov 18.1%🇷🇺 Voronezh 18%Dubai🇮🇩 Gresik 17.8%🇸🇾 Aleppo 17.6%🇺🇦 Bila Tserkva 17.6%🇻🇳 Hanoi 17.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail	99.4%	5 of 1,704	🇷🇺 Orenburg 99.5%🇷🇺 Surgut 99.5%🇺🇸 Tampa 99.5%🇷🇺 Cheboksary 99.4%Dubai🇷🇺 Kazan 99.4%🇷🇺 Krasnoyarsk 99.4%🇺🇸 Poway 99.4%🇷🇺 Pushkin 99.4%

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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