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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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 80k · 1,442 venues mapped

Sindelfingen

Where Sindelfingen 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 146 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Gerlingen 12 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇭 Zurich 📖 152 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Sindelfingen 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 & drink1,442 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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6%
open past midnight
73%
open on Sundays
55h
open per week
26%
take a midday break
Shops & errands697 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
27%
open on Sundays
76h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
Culture369 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
25%
open on Sundays
22h
open per week
16%
take a midday break
Services287 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
4%
open on Sundays
47h
open per week
37%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
168
umbrella days a year
43.9 m
of rain since 1981
193
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
226.4 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
1.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:30
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.2 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,793
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSindelfingen RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.2% 238 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Lucca 6.2%🇧🇷 Recife 6.2%🇧🇪 Roeselare 6.2%🇵🇱 Rybnik 6.2%Sindelfingen🇺🇸 Spokane Valley 6.2%🇭🇳 Tegucigalpa 6.2%🇮🇳 Udaipur 6.2%🇳🇿 Wellington 6.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 55 h 203 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Leiden 55 h🇬🇧 Margate 55 h🇩🇪 Münster 55 h🇪🇨 Quito 55 hSindelfingen🇩🇪 Bensheim 54.8 h🇨🇭 Wettingen 54.8 h🇫🇷 Belfort 54.5 h🇬🇧 Folkestone 54.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.8% 394 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Valladolid 7.9%🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 7.8%🇩🇪 Augsburg 7.8%🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 7.8%Sindelfingen🇦🇷 Cordoba 7.7%🇫🇷 Douai 7.7%🇩🇪 Gerlingen 7.7%🇩🇪 Hamburg 7.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 26.4% 146 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Turin 26.7%🇮🇹 Follonica 26.5%🇪🇸 Granollers 26.5%🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 26.5%Sindelfingen🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 26.3%🇩🇪 Gerlingen 26.3%🇩🇪 Göppingen 26.3%🇧🇪 Liège 26.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.6% 225 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Oldenburg 0.6%🇫🇷 Orléans 0.6%🇫🇷 Poitiers 0.6%🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 0.6%Sindelfingen🇫🇷 Strasbourg 0.6%🇨🇭 Thun 0.6%🇮🇹 Trieste 0.6%🇪🇸 Zaragoza 0.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 27.1% 466 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Hamm 27.4%🇨🇭 Basel 27.2%🇩🇪 Celle 27.2%🇨🇭 Wettingen 27.2%Sindelfingen🇩🇪 Freilassing 27%🇩🇪 Berlin 26.9%🇩🇪 Minden 26.9%🇪🇸 Tarifa 26.7%

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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