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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
Everything else3
The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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L'Aquila

Where L'Aquila places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 41 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Ascoli Piceno 58 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Rome 📖 89 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Jul, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink279 places mapped
12:00–23:45
0006121824
30%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
33%
take a midday break
Shops & errands112 places mapped
08:30–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
42%
take a midday break
8%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
124
umbrella days a year
33.8 m
of rain since 1981
1,088
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
86.4 km
to Colli Albani
17.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:37
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.3 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,283
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureL'Aquila RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 30.3% 41 of 1,878 🇺🇿 Yangiyul 31.2%🇹🇷 Eskisehir 31%🇦🇷 Posadas 31%🇮🇹 Piacenza 30.8%L'Aquila🇰🇿 Petropavl 30.2%🇯🇴 Amman 30%🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 30%🇳🇬 Lagos 29.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 56 h 197 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Hobart 56 h🇩🇪 Iserlohn 56 h🇯🇵 Kanazawa 56 h🇩🇪 Kiel 56 hL'Aquila🇦🇺 Langwarrin 56 h🇩🇪 Magdeburg 56 h🇺🇾 Maldonado 56 h🇨🇴 Manizales 56 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 24.2% 235 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Bastia 24.3%🇨🇴 Cartagena 24.3%🇺🇸 Logan 24.3%🇺🇸 Richmond 24.3%L'Aquila🇳🇮 Managua 24.2%🇧🇫 Ouagadougou 24.2%🇸🇻 Santa Ana 24.2%🇦🇺 Ballarat 24.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 33.3% 95 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Pisa 33.5%🇮🇹 Asti 33.3%🇪🇸 Cartagena 33.3%🇪🇸 Cáceres 33.3%L'Aquila🇫🇷 Le Mans 33.3%🇦🇷 Resistencia 33.3%🇨🇭 Solothurn 33.3%🇪🇸 Granada 33.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Koszalin 0%🇷🇸 Kragujevac 0%🇨🇭 Kreuzlingen 0%🇨🇳 Kunming 0%L'Aquila🇲🇽 La Paz 0%🇦🇷 La Plata 0%🇫🇷 La Rochelle 0%🇨🇱 La Serena 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 75% 215 of 1,704 🇧🇷 Blumenau 75.2%🇪🇹 Addis Ababa 75%🇧🇷 Boa Vista 75%🇮🇹 Genoa 75%L'Aquila🇨🇱 Rancagua 75%🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 75%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 75%🇳🇱 Amsterdam 74.9%

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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