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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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Gütersloh

Where Gütersloh places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is vanish at lunch, where it ranks 188 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Bielefeld 18 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 207 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Gütersloh 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 & drink587 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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5%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
22%
take a midday break
Shops & errands356 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
29%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Services128 places mapped
08:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
18%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
28%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
165
umbrella days a year
37.9 m
of rain since 1981
153
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
220.7 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:18
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.7 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,901
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureGütersloh RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.2% 248 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Târgoviște 5.3%🇨🇲 Yaoundé 5.3%🇨🇴 Yopal 5.3%🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 5.2%Gütersloh🇭🇺 Kecskemét 5.2%🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne 5.2%🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 5.2%🇳🇱 Zwolle 5.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 54 h 207 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Flensburg 54 h🇩🇪 Freilassing 54 h🇯🇵 Fujikawaguchiko 54 h🇦🇺 Geelong 54 hGütersloh🇬🇧 Hastings 54 h🇩🇪 Heidelberg 54 h🇨🇴 Ibagué 54 h🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 54 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.7% 415 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Albufeira 5.7%🇫🇷 Bordeaux 5.7%🇩🇪 Dortmund 5.7%🇵🇱 Gliwice 5.7%Gütersloh🇯🇵 Hirosaki 5.7%🇹🇯 Hisor 5.7%🇩🇪 Oldenburg 5.7%🇮🇸 Reykjavik 5.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 21.9% 188 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Schweinfurt 22.3%🇵🇪 Piura 22.2%🇯🇵 Sano 22%🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 22%Gütersloh🇨🇱 Antofagasta 21.7%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 21.7%🇪🇸 Lleida 21.7%🇨🇦 Saint John 21.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.5% 226 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Bonn 0.5%🇵🇹 Braga 0.5%🇫🇷 Grenoble 0.5%🇩🇪 Göppingen 0.5%Gütersloh🇩🇪 Hagen 0.5%🇩🇪 Koblenz 0.5%🇨🇭 Lausanne 0.5%🇩🇪 Lübeck 0.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 29.4% 453 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 29.9%🇩🇪 Krefeld 29.9%🇨🇭 Zurich 29.9%🇩🇪 Unna 29.8%Gütersloh🇪🇸 Donostia / San Sebastián 29.3%🇩🇪 Osnabrück 29.3%🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 29.3%🇩🇪 Koblenz 29.1%

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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