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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
The Wobbliest GroundThe Volcano PartyThe Volcano Next DoorThe 3 p.m. Sunset Club
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The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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🇵🇱 Poland · metro 723k · 3,342 venues mapped

Krakow

Where Krakow 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 139 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Krakow in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 64 km Nearest written profile 🇵🇱 Wrocław 📖 235 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Krakow 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 & drink3,342 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
5%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
Shops & errands3,332 places mapped
06:00–21:30
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
51%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
145
umbrella days a year
34.9 m
of rain since 1981
362
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
932 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.4 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,067
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKrakow RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.9% 251 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Cambridge 4.9%🇺🇸 Davenport 4.9%🇩🇪 Freilassing 4.9%🇬🇧 Grays 4.9%Krakow🇺🇸 Lancaster 4.9%🇰🇪 Nairobi 4.9%🇺🇸 Puyallup 4.9%🇬🇧 Worcester 4.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇰🇷 Jeonju 70 h🇫🇮 Jyväskylä 70 h🇹🇭 Ko Samui 70 h🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 70 hKrakow🇲🇾 Kuching 70 h🇫🇮 Lahti 70 h🇳🇮 León 70 h🇹🇬 Lomé 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.4% 388 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Norwich 8.5%🇰🇷 Seoul 8.5%🇷🇴 Brasov 8.4%🇵🇱 Gdynia 8.4%Krakow🇪🇸 Mataró 8.4%🇷🇺 Podolsk 8.4%🇷🇺 Tomsk 8.4%🇧🇪 Brussels 8.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.7% 367 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Camberley 1.7%🇺🇸 Huntsville 1.7%🇻🇳 Hội An 1.7%🇺🇸 Jonesboro 1.7%Krakow🇱🇦 Luang Prabang 1.7%🇵🇭 Manila 1.7%🇸🇮 Maribor 1.7%🇺🇸 Mission Viejo 1.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.3% 208 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 2.3%🇮🇹 Florence 2.3%🇭🇺 Gyor 2.3%🇺🇸 Honolulu 2.3%Krakow🇺🇸 Lansing 2.3%🇺🇸 Omaha 2.3%🇮🇹 Pavia 2.3%🇺🇸 Providence 2.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 50.6% 369 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Niort 51.4%🇸🇰 Trnava 51.1%🇳🇱 Zwolle 51%🇮🇹 Mestre 50.7%Krakow🇧🇪 Temse 50.6%🇪🇸 Granollers 50%🇲🇰 Skopje 49.6%🇫🇷 Angers 49.5%

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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