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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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Kottayam

Where Kottayam 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 82 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇳 Alappuzha 24 km Nearest written profile 🇴🇲 Muscat 📖 2,474 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Kottayam does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands1,538 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
64%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
10%
open 24/7
Food & drink963 places mapped
09:00–21:30
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2%
open past midnight
77%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
11%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
350
muggy days a year
358
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
241
umbrella days a year
118 m
of rain since 1981
5,569
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1915.8 km
to Barren Island
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:09
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.7 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
6,229
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKottayam RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.6% 284 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Genoa 1.7%🇮🇩 Ubud 1.7%🇲🇽 Ensenada 1.6%🇯🇵 Fuji 1.6%Kottayam🇬🇧 Oxford 1.6%🇬🇧 Bedford 1.5%🇧🇷 Blumenau 1.5%🇦🇺 Cairns 1.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kofu 84 h🇮🇳 Kolkata 84 h🇬🇷 Kos 84 h🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 84 hKottayam🇮🇳 Koyilandy 84 h🇷🇺 Krasnodar 84 h🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 84 h🇯🇵 Kumagaya 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 14.1% 331 of 1,878 🇭🇺 Sopron 14.2%🇬🇧 Stoke-on-Trent 14.2%🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 14.2%🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 14.2%Kottayam🇯🇵 Nagoya 14.1%🇮🇹 Novara 14.1%🇬🇧 Preston 14.1%🇮🇩 Singkawang 14.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Konya 0%🇬🇷 Kos 0%🇵🇱 Koszalin 0%🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 0%Kottayam🇮🇳 Kozhikode 0%🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 0%🇷🇸 Kragujevac 0%🇬🇭 Kumasi 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10.9% 122 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Nagoya 11%🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 11%🇵🇭 Agoo 10.9%🇷🇺 Kazan 10.9%Kottayam🇴🇲 Muscat 10.9%🇨🇺 Santa Clara 10.9%🇺🇿 Yangiyul 10.9%🇳🇮 Tipitapa 10.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 64.1% 292 of 1,704 🇦🇴 Lubango 64.3%🇱🇺 Luxembourg 64.3%🇨🇿 Hradec Králové 64.2%🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 64.2%Kottayam🇳🇱 Dordrecht 64%🇮🇹 Bergamo 63.9%🇫🇷 Bayonne 63.8%🇨🇿 Olomouc 63.8%

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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