🇯🇲 Jamaica · metro 593k · 583 venues mapped

Kingston

Where Kingston 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 36 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇨🇺 Santiago de Cuba 247 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Miami 📖 933 km

Typical weather

1981–present

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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues

Food & drink583 places mapped

10:00–23:00

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10%

open past midnight

70%

open on Sundays

72h

open per week

Shops & errands428 places mapped

08:00–22:00

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open past midnight

96%

open on Sundays

89h

open per week

11%

open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured

344

muggy days a year

256

nights/yr the bedroom never cools

days over 30 °C, of 16,630

volcanoes within 100 km

1162.2 km

to Turrialba

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

17:37

winter sunset (solar approx.)

13.2 h

longest day of the year

public holidays, 2024

18,010

km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues

Measure	Kingston	Rank	Nearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink	10.2%	198 of 1,878	🇸🇪 Uppsala 10.3%🇺🇸 Boise 10.2%🇺🇸 Detroit 10.2%🇳🇱 Groningen 10.2%Kingston🇮🇳 Kochi 10.2%🇮🇳 New Delhi 10.2%🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 10.2%🇺🇸 Redlands 10.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink	72 h	133 of 1,878	🇺🇸 Easton 72 h🇯🇵 Fukuoka 72 h🇵🇱 Gniezno 72 h🇸🇪 Gävle 72 hKingston🇬🇧 Leicester 72 h🇬🇦 Libreville 72 h🇨🇭 Locarno 72 h🇵🇱 Lodz 72 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink	27.1%	209 of 1,878	🇮🇹 Siena 27.4%🇱🇦 Vientiane 27.4%🇺🇸 Knoxville 27.3%🇮🇹 Genoa 27.2%Kingston🇺🇸 Livermore 27.1%🇺🇸 Eugene 27%🇺🇸 Chester 26.9%🇭🇷 Zadar 26.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break	0%	384 of 1,878	🇺🇦 Kherson 0%🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 0%🇵🇱 Kielce 0%🇮🇪 Kilkenny 0%Kingston🇨🇩 Kinshasa 0%🇷🇺 Kirov 0%🇷🇺 Kislovodsk 0%🇹🇭 Ko Samui 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7	0%	231 of 1,878	🇭🇺 Kecskemét 0%🇨🇦 Kelowna 0%🇩🇪 Kempten (Allgäu) 0%🇺🇸 Kennewick 0%Kingston🇹🇷 Konya 0%🇵🇱 Koszalin 0%🇷🇸 Kragujevac 0%🇨🇭 Kreuzlingen 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail	96.3%	36 of 1,704	🇹🇷 Trabzon 96.4%🇬🇧 Worcester 96.4%🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 96.3%🇮🇩 Jakarta 96.3%Kingston🇮🇩 Makassar 96.3%🇰🇭 Phnom Penh 96.3%🇺🇸 Sarasota 96.3%🇺🇸 Stamford 96.3%

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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