🇲🇽 Mexico · metro 305k · 522 venues mapped

Playa del Carmen

Where Playa del Carmen places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 95 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇲🇽 Tulum 61 km Nearest written profile 🇲🇽 Mérida 📖 267 km

Typical weather

1981–present

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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit

Best time to visit Feb, Mar — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues

Food & drink522 places mapped

09:00–22:00

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open past midnight

89%

open on Sundays

74h

open per week

Shops & errands284 places mapped

07:00–22:00

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open past midnight

90%

open on Sundays

105h

open per week

27%

open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured

331

muggy days a year

278

nights/yr the bedroom never cools

days over 30 °C, of 16,630

volcanoes within 100 km

637 km

to Yojoa, Lago

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

18:13

winter sunset (solar approx.)

13.4 h

longest day of the year

public holidays, 2024

17,413

km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues

Measure	Playa del Carmen	Rank	Nearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink	5.5%	245 of 1,878	🇦🇺 Brisbane 5.5%🇩🇪 Hamburg 5.5%🇫🇷 Marignane 5.5%🇩🇪 Osnabrück 5.5%Playa del Carmen🇬🇧 Southampton 5.5%🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 5.5%🇩🇪 Augsburg 5.4%🇺🇸 Campbell 5.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink	74.2 h	124 of 1,878	🇨🇦 Maple Ridge 74.7 h🇨🇦 Milton 74.5 h🇵🇪 Cusco 74.2 h🇬🇧 Maidenhead 74.2 hPlaya del Carmen🇪🇸 Sant Boi de Llobregat 74.2 h🇬🇧 East Kilbride 74 h🇨🇦 Guelph 74 h🇺🇸 Logan 74 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink	28.3%	197 of 1,878	🇺🇸 Chattanooga 28.4%🇹🇳 Tunis 28.4%🇪🇸 Albacete 28.3%🇺🇸 Honolulu 28.3%Playa del Carmen🇮🇳 Chennai 28.2%🇺🇸 Fresno 28.2%🇺🇸 Olympia 28.2%🇺🇸 Palm Desert 28.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break	0.7%	377 of 1,878	🇱🇹 Klaipėda 0.7%🇺🇸 Lake Ronkonkoma 0.7%🇺🇸 Levittown 0.7%🇺🇸 New Bedford 0.7%Playa del Carmen🇲🇪 Podgorica 0.7%🇷🇺 Samara 0.7%🇺🇸 Sioux Falls 0.7%🇭🇺 Székesfehérvár 0.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7	1.4%	217 of 1,878	🇺🇸 Manhattan 1.4%🇨🇿 Olomouc 1.4%🇺🇸 Olympia 1.4%🇺🇸 Piscataway 1.4%Playa del Carmen🇬🇧 Reigate 1.4%🇧🇷 Sapiranga 1.4%🇩🇪 Schwerin 1.4%🇯🇵 Shibata 1.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail	90.2%	95 of 1,704	🇬🇧 Coventry 90.2%🇬🇧 Gloucester 90.2%🇬🇧 Littlehampton 90.2%🇸🇪 Malmo 90.2%Playa del Carmen🇸🇪 Västerås 90.2%🇬🇧 Aldershot 90.1%🇵🇹 Aveiro 90%🇺🇸 Billings 90%

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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