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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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🇳🇱 Netherlands · metro 76k · 481 venues mapped

Gouda

Where Gouda 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 217 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 13 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Amsterdam 📖 42 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Gouda 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 & drink481 places mapped
12:00–22:00
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8%
open past midnight
79%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
Shops & errands213 places mapped
08:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
57%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
157
umbrella days a year
36.8 m
of rain since 1981
102
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
254 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:32
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.7 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
14,152
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureGouda RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.3% 217 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Venice 8.4%🇺🇸 Boston 8.3%🇮🇹 Catania 8.3%🇫🇷 Chambéry 8.3%Gouda🇨🇺 Holguín 8.3%🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 8.3%🇧🇷 Lago Norte 8.3%🇨🇦 Maple Ridge 8.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 48 h 233 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Brest 48 h🇬🇧 Burnley 48 h🇮🇹 Cremona 48 h🇩🇪 Gera 48 hGouda🇲🇽 La Paz 48 h🇧🇪 Leuven 48 h🇫🇷 Marignane 48 h🇦🇷 Posadas 48 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 1.8% 454 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Quimper 1.9%🇷🇺 Yeysk 1.9%🇫🇷 Blois 1.8%🇩🇪 Detmold 1.8%Gouda🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 1.7%🇺🇦 Chernivtsi 1.7%🇪🇨 Ibarra 1.7%🇧🇷 Santa Maria 1.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.8% 366 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Ames 1.8%🇹🇭 Bangkok 1.8%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 1.8%🇺🇸 Cheyenne 1.8%Gouda🇺🇸 Grand Junction 1.8%🇹🇷 Izmir 1.8%🇬🇧 Kidderminster 1.8%🇫🇮 Lahti 1.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.2% 219 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Concord 1.2%🇩🇪 Dormagen 1.2%🇺🇸 Eugene 1.2%🇧🇷 Florianópolis 1.2%Gouda🇫🇷 Le Mans 1.2%🇺🇸 Lynchburg 1.2%🇳🇱 Maastricht 1.2%🇫🇷 Marseille 1.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 57.3% 335 of 1,704 🇳🇱 Amersfoort 57.7%🇮🇹 Vicenza 57.6%🇵🇱 Zielona Góra 57.6%🇫🇷 Vannes 57.5%Gouda🇵🇱 Pabianice 57.2%🇮🇹 Chieti 57.1%🇪🇸 Cáceres 57.1%🇮🇹 Imola 57.1%

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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