🇰🇷 South Korea · metro 1.4M · 2,176 venues mapped

Gwangju

Where Gwangju 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 83 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇰🇷 Mokpo 61 km Nearest written profile 🇰🇷 Busan 📖 192 km

Typical weather

1981–present

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coldcool warmhot

Come for everything else Gwangju 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 & drink2,176 places mapped

11:00–22:00

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open past midnight

86%

open on Sundays

74h

open per week

16%

take a midday break

open 24/7

Shops & errands1,184 places mapped

00:00–24:00

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open past midnight

91%

open on Sundays

168h

open per week

55%

open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured

muggy days a year

nights/yr the bedroom never cools

days over 30 °C, of 16,630

volcanoes within 100 km

202.6 km

to Halla

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

17:24

winter sunset (solar approx.)

14.5 h

longest day of the year

public holidays, 2024

7,551

km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues

Measure	Gwangju	Rank	Nearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink	6.8%	232 of 1,878	🇫🇷 Vichy 6.9%🇫🇷 Albi 6.8%🇬🇧 Aylesbury 6.8%🇯🇵 Gamagori 6.8%Gwangju🇬🇧 Ipswich 6.8%🇬🇧 Manchester 6.8%🇩🇪 Mannheim 6.8%🇺🇸 Odessa 6.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink	73.5 h	127 of 1,878	🇬🇧 Reading 73.8 h🇵🇹 Almada 73.5 h🇺🇦 Druzhkivka 73.5 h🇳🇮 Granada 73.5 hGwangju🇨🇦 Hamilton 73.5 h🇵🇪 Huancayo 73.5 h🇵🇹 Lisbon 73.5 h🇬🇧 London 73.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink	2.8%	444 of 1,878	🇳🇴 Stavanger 2.9%🇩🇪 Unna 2.9%🇷🇺 Vyborg 2.9%🇳🇱 Arnhem 2.8%Gwangju🇵🇾 Presidente Franco 2.8%🇸🇪 Västerås 2.8%🇩🇪 Bensheim 2.7%🇩🇪 Göppingen 2.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break	15.5%	240 of 1,878	🇩🇪 Bonn 15.7%🇩🇪 Krefeld 15.7%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 15.7%🇦🇺 Bendigo 15.6%Gwangju🇩🇪 Marl 15.5%🇪🇸 Bilbao 15.3%🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 15.3%🇵🇹 Setúbal 15.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7	4%	191 of 1,878	🇳🇿 Auckland 4%🇺🇸 Austin 4%🇧🇷 Blumenau 4%🇮🇳 Chennai 4%Gwangju🇷🇺 Ivanovo 4%🇮🇱 Jerusalem 4%🇱🇹 Kaunas 4%🇺🇸 Lynn 4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail	91.4%	83 of 1,704	🇬🇧 Weston-super-Mare 91.7%🇦🇺 Ballarat 91.5%🇻🇪 Caracas 91.4%🇮🇩 Gresik 91.4%Gwangju🇺🇸 Flagstaff 91.3%🇺🇸 Pensacola 91.3%🇬🇧 Bognor Regis 91.2%🇱🇻 Riga 91.2%

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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