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The weather6
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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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 54k · 327 venues mapped

Passau

Where Passau 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 163 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇦🇹 Wels 63 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇪 Munich 📖 145 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Passau 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 & drink327 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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7%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
64h
open per week
18%
take a midday break
Shops & errands138 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
12%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
Services52 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
53h
open per week
12%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
158
umbrella days a year
40.9 m
of rain since 1981
154
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
508.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:13
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.1 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,474
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePassau RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.8% 232 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Mannheim 6.8%🇺🇸 Odessa 6.8%🇨🇿 Olomouc 6.8%🇧🇷 Paranoá 6.8%Passau🇳🇱 Purmerend 6.8%🇵🇱 Radom 6.8%🇨🇴 Riohacha 6.8%🇺🇸 Schenectady 6.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 64.5 h 163 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kochi 64.8 h🇲🇾 Alor Setar 64.5 h🇵🇹 Aveiro 64.5 h🇬🇧 Eastleigh 64.5 hPassau🇮🇹 Trieste 64.5 h🇬🇧 Cambridge 64 h🇦🇹 Linz 64 h🇯🇵 Nagano 64 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.2% 370 of 1,878 🇦🇷 San Juan 10.3%🇬🇧 Sheffield 10.3%🇧🇷 São Carlos 10.3%🇬🇧 Leeds 10.2%Passau🇨🇱 Penco 10.2%🇷🇺 Samara 10.2%🇷🇺 Saratov 10.2%🇰🇿 Almaty 10.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 17.8% 223 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Fulda 17.9%🇵🇹 Portimão 17.9%🇩🇪 Chemnitz 17.8%🇹🇼 Miaoli 17.8%Passau🇩🇪 Würzburg 17.8%🇬🇧 Lowestoft 17.7%🇯🇵 Miyazaki 17.6%🇮🇳 Mysuru 17.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.8% 223 of 1,878 🇲🇨 Monaco 0.8%🇨🇭 Montreux 0.8%🇺🇸 New Hope 0.8%🇬🇧 Newport 0.8%Passau🇩🇪 Remscheid 0.8%🇷🇴 Sibiu 0.8%🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 0.7%🇧🇦 Banja Luka 0.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 12% 543 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Segovia 13.3%🇩🇪 Bayreuth 13.1%🇩🇪 Jena 13.1%🇳🇴 Stavanger 12.7%Passau🇦🇹 Villach 12%🇮🇳 Payyanur 11.8%🇩🇪 Coburg 11.4%🇬🇷 Corfu 11.1%

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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