🇹🇷 Turkey · metro 14.2M · 12,206 venues mapped

Istanbul

Where Istanbul places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 48 of 1,878.

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

Nearest city 🇹🇷 Yalova 48 km Nearest written profile 🇷🇴 Bucharest 📖 445 km

Typical weather

1981–present

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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit

Best time to visit May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues

Food & drink12,206 places mapped

09:00–23:00

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24%

open past midnight

90%

open on Sundays

94h

open per week

open 24/7

Shops & errands8,794 places mapped

09:00–21:00

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open past midnight

80%

open on Sundays

84h

open per week

open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured

muggy days a year

nights/yr the bedroom never cools

days over 30 °C, of 16,626

volcanoes within 100 km

273.1 km

to Kula

8.6

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

17:39

winter sunset (solar approx.)

15.1 h

longest day of the year

public holidays, 2024

12,034

km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues

Measure	Istanbul	Rank	Nearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink	23.6%	76 of 1,878	🇦🇿 Baku 23.9%🇺🇸 Cedar Rapids 23.8%🇪🇸 A Coruña 23.7%🇶🇦 Doha 23.6%Istanbul🇮🇹 Barletta 23.5%🇪🇸 Tarifa 23.5%🇨🇱 La Serena 23.3%🇹🇷 Antalya 23.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink	94.5 h	48 of 1,878	🇨🇳 Chongqing 94.5 h🇧🇯 Cotonou 94.5 h🇺🇸 Findlay 94.5 h🇪🇸 Huelva 94.5 hIstanbul🇷🇺 Izhevsk 94.5 h🇮🇳 Kannur 94.5 h🇦🇴 Luanda 94.5 h🇺🇸 Morgantown 94.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink	14.4%	328 of 1,878	🇬🇧 Dundee 14.5%🇵🇱 Przemyśl 14.5%🇲🇽 Toluca 14.5%🇬🇧 Wishaw 14.5%Istanbul🇬🇧 Coleraine 14.3%🇨🇳 Dalian 14.3%🇧🇷 Joinville 14.3%🇹🇷 Konya 14.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break	0.5%	379 of 1,878	🇺🇸 White Plains 0.6%🇷🇴 Brasov 0.5%🇺🇸 Buffalo 0.5%🇳🇱 Enschede 0.5%Istanbul🇮🇩 Jakarta 0.5%🇺🇸 Laurel 0.5%🇵🇱 Lublin 0.5%🇨🇿 Pilsen 0.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7	5.3%	178 of 1,878	🇺🇸 Tucson 5.4%🇬🇪 Batumi 5.3%🇵🇱 Elbląg 5.3%🇯🇵 Fukuyama 5.3%Istanbul🇯🇵 Kawagoe 5.3%🇯🇵 Kobe 5.3%🇮🇳 Kozhikode 5.3%🇯🇵 Misawa 5.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail	79.7%	182 of 1,704	🇮🇳 Muvattupuzha 80%🇧🇫 Ouagadougou 80%🇫🇷 Perpignan 80%🇦🇷 Salta 80%Istanbul🇮🇹 Salerno 79.6%🇦🇷 La Plata 79.5%🇳🇱 Venlo 79.5%🇮🇹 Como 79.4%

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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