🇨🇭 Switzerland · metro 289k · 1,358 venues mapped

Lausanne

Where Lausanne places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is vanish at lunch, where it ranks 92 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇭 Montreux 23 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇭 Zurich 📖 174 km

Typical weather

1981–present

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coldcool warmhot

Come for everything else Lausanne 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 & drink1,358 places mapped

10:00–22:30

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open past midnight

55%

open on Sundays

62h

open per week

34%

take a midday break

Shops & errands660 places mapped

07:30–19:00

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open past midnight

40%

open on Sundays

68h

open per week

take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured

muggy days a year

nights/yr the bedroom never cools

days over 30 °C, of 16,630

volcanoes within 100 km

292.8 km

to Chaine des Puys

1.4

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

16:49

winter sunset (solar approx.)

15.8 h

longest day of the year

public holidays, 2024

13,920

km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues

Measure	Lausanne	Rank	Nearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink	6.9%	231 of 1,878	🇧🇾 Brest 6.9%🇺🇸 Brockton 6.9%🇩🇪 Gießen 6.9%🇧🇷 Goiânia 6.9%Lausanne🇳🇱 Maastricht 6.9%🇨🇦 Regina 6.9%🇯🇵 Toyohashi 6.9%🇫🇷 Vichy 6.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink	62 h	172 of 1,878	🇬🇧 Bath 62 h🇨🇭 Biel/Bienne 62 h🇬🇧 Brighton 62 h🇯🇵 Koriyama 62 hLausanne🇮🇹 Ravenna 62 h🇬🇧 Swindon 62 h🇪🇸 Tarragona 62 h🇮🇹 Varese 62 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink	18.4%	288 of 1,878	🇮🇹 Florence 18.4%🇵🇹 Funchal 18.4%🇺🇬 Kampala 18.4%🇬🇧 Keighley 18.4%Lausanne🇮🇹 Mestre 18.4%🇮🇹 Naples 18.4%🇬🇷 Chania 18.3%🇨🇿 České Budějovice 18.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break	33.7%	92 of 1,878	🇦🇹 Lustenau 34.6%🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 34.5%🇫🇷 Le Havre 34.1%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 34.1%Lausanne🇫🇷 Tours 33.7%🇵🇹 Évora 33.6%🇮🇹 Pisa 33.5%🇮🇹 Asti 33.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7	0.5%	226 of 1,878	🇩🇪 Göppingen 0.5%🇩🇪 Gütersloh 0.5%🇩🇪 Hagen 0.5%🇩🇪 Koblenz 0.5%Lausanne🇩🇪 Lübeck 0.5%🇮🇹 Milan 0.5%🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 0.5%🇫🇷 Nice 0.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail	40.3%	408 of 1,704	🇪🇸 Logroño 40.5%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 40.5%🇪🇸 Motril 40.4%🇪🇸 Zaragoza 40.4%Lausanne🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 40%🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 39.6%🇨🇭 Neuchâtel 39%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 38.8%

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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