🇿🇦 South Africa · metro 1.8M · 1,051 venues mapped

Pretoria

Where Pretoria 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 58 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇿🇦 Centurion 13 km Nearest written profile 🇿🇦 Cape Town 📖 1,308 km

Typical weather

1981–present

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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit

Best time to visit Apr, May, Aug, Sep, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues

Food & drink1,051 places mapped

08:00–22:00

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open past midnight

92%

open on Sundays

91h

open per week

11%

open 24/7

Shops & errands771 places mapped

08:00–20:00

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open past midnight

94%

open on Sundays

78h

open per week

22%

open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured

muggy days a year

nights/yr the bedroom never cools

days over 30 °C, of 16,626

volcanoes within 100 km

1929.4 km

to Kyejo

8.2

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

17:24

winter sunset (solar approx.)

13.7 h

longest day of the year

public holidays, 2024

8,326

km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues

Measure	Pretoria	Rank	Nearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink	2.8%	272 of 1,878	🇧🇦 Mostar 2.8%🇩🇪 Pforzheim 2.8%🇹🇭 Phitsanulok 2.8%🇩🇪 Potsdam 2.8%Pretoria🇩🇪 Rostock 2.8%🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 2.8%🇫🇷 Belfort 2.7%🇵🇱 Elbląg 2.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink	91 h	58 of 1,878	🇮🇩 Palembang 91 h🇰🇿 Petropavl 91 h🇻🇳 Phú Quốc 91 h🇷🇺 Podolsk 91 hPretoria🇷🇺 Pskov 91 h🇷🇺 Pushkin 91 h🇷🇺 Pyatigorsk 91 h🇮🇷 Rasht 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink	35.1%	138 of 1,878	🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 35.3%🇺🇸 Columbus 35.3%🇦🇺 Gold Coast 35.3%🇺🇸 Missoula 35.2%Pretoria🇮🇹 Ancona 35%🇺🇸 Modesto 35%🇺🇸 Rockford 35%🇮🇹 Ascoli Piceno 34.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break	0%	384 of 1,878	🇷🇴 Ploiești 0%🇧🇬 Plovdiv 0%🇨🇬 Pointe-Noire 0%🇳🇵 Pokhara 0%Pretoria🇹🇯 Proletar 0%🇨🇾 Protaras 0%🇵🇱 Przemyśl 0%🇷🇺 Pskov 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7	11.4%	117 of 1,878	🇬🇧 Peterborough 11.5%🇺🇸 Puyallup 11.5%🇺🇸 Scranton 11.5%🇷🇺 Yekaterinburg 11.5%Pretoria🇲🇽 Ensenada 11.3%🇯🇵 Hino 11.3%🇳🇵 Pokhara 11.3%🇷🇺 Surgut 11.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail	93.8%	61 of 1,704	🇲🇾 Kuching 93.8%🇺🇸 Mount Vernon 93.8%🇺🇸 Palm Bay 93.8%🇷🇴 Ploiești 93.8%Pretoria🇺🇸 Redding 93.8%🇺🇸 Scranton 93.8%🇬🇧 Stoke-on-Trent 93.8%🇲🇽 Tepic 93.8%

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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