🇨🇳 China · metro 30.7M · 4,854 venues mapped

Shanghai

Where Shanghai 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 16 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Shanghai in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.

Nearest city 🇨🇳 Zhujiajiao 40 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇳 Hangzhou 📖 161 km

Typical weather

1981–present

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coldcool warmhot

Come for everything else Shanghai 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 & drink4,854 places mapped

09:00–22:00

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15%

open past midnight

97%

open on Sundays

88h

open per week

take a midday break

open 24/7

Shops & errands2,064 places mapped

07:00–22:00

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open past midnight

98%

open on Sundays

102h

open per week

33%

open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured

112

muggy days a year

nights/yr the bedroom never cools

days over 30 °C, of 16,630

volcanoes within 100 km

532.7 km

to Halla

0.4

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

16:56

winter sunset (solar approx.)

14.2 h

longest day of the year

public holidays, 2024

7,049

km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues

Measure	Shanghai	Rank	Nearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink	15.2%	148 of 1,878	🇮🇹 Imperia 15.2%🇪🇸 Ourense 15.2%🇷🇺 Pushkin 15.2%🇭🇷 Rijeka 15.2%Shanghai🇸🇪 Södertälje 15.2%🇺🇸 Akron 15.1%🇫🇷 Angoulême 15.1%🇷🇺 Kaluga 15.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink	87.5 h	72 of 1,878	🇻🇳 Nha Trang 87.5 h🇷🇺 Odintsovo 87.5 h🇺🇸 Palm Bay 87.5 h🇬🇷 Rethymno 87.5 hShanghai🇮🇷 Tehran 87.5 h🇹🇷 Trabzon 87.5 h🇷🇺 Orenburg 87.2 h🇹🇳 Tunis 87.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink	31.7%	168 of 1,878	🇹🇯 Proletar 31.8%🇮🇹 Salerno 31.8%🇸🇦 Dammam 31.7%🇺🇸 Little Elm 31.7%Shanghai🇵🇪 Huaraz 31.6%🇺🇸 Pittsburgh 31.6%🇦🇺 Perth 31.5%🇻🇳 Phú Quốc 31.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break	5.3%	331 of 1,878	🇳🇱 Geleen 5.3%🇦🇹 Graz 5.3%🇮🇳 Irinjalakuda 5.3%🇮🇩 Makassar 5.3%Shanghai🇺🇸 Stillwater 5.3%🇺🇸 Valdosta 5.3%🇳🇱 Maastricht 5.2%🇲🇦 Marrakesh 5.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7	3.7%	194 of 1,878	🇨🇦 Ottawa 3.7%🇻🇳 Phú Quốc 3.7%🇱🇻 Riga 3.7%🇬🇧 Salisbury 3.7%Shanghai🇨🇦 Sherwood Park 3.7%🇬🇧 Shrewsbury 3.7%🇮🇳 Talegaon Dabhade 3.7%🇺🇸 Tampa 3.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail	98.3%	16 of 1,704	🇷🇺 Krasnodar 98.3%🇺🇸 Lewisville 98.3%🇷🇺 Lobnya 98.3%🇷🇺 Saratov 98.3%Shanghai🇷🇺 Vladimir 98.3%🇷🇺 Yekaterinburg 98.3%🇹🇷 Eskisehir 98.2%🇯🇵 Kanazawa 98.2%

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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