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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 115k · 1,328 venues mapped

Ulm

Where Ulm 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 199 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Göppingen 42 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇪 Munich 📖 121 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Ulm 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 & drink1,328 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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7%
open past midnight
68%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
21%
take a midday break
Shops & errands621 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
23%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
Culture408 places mapped
11:00–18:45
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0%
open past midnight
42%
open on Sundays
18h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Services310 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
9%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
6%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
159
umbrella days a year
40.8 m
of rain since 1981
85
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
301.2 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
1.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:28
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.1 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,716
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureUlm RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.4% 226 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Manassas Park 7.4%🇭🇷 Pula 7.4%🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 7.4%🇯🇵 Tsukuba 7.4%Ulm🇺🇸 Ames 7.3%🇫🇷 Creil 7.3%🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 7.3%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 7.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 54.2 h 206 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Mannheim 54.5 h🇬🇧 Stoke-on-Trent 54.5 h🇯🇵 Komatsu 54.2 h🇱🇺 Luxembourg 54.2 hUlm🇩🇪 Aalen 54 h🇨🇱 Antofagasta 54 h🇩🇪 Darmstadt 54 h🇦🇹 Dornbirn 54 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.4% 418 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Recife 5.4%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 5.4%🇸🇪 Södertälje 5.4%🇧🇪 Temse 5.4%Ulm🇷🇺 Yekaterinburg 5.4%🇮🇹 Cervia 5.3%🇹🇷 Fethiye 5.3%🇧🇷 Novo Hamburgo 5.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 20.6% 199 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Brindisi 20.7%🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 20.7%🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 20.6%🇩🇪 Bocholt 20.6%Ulm🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 20.5%🇩🇪 Munich 20.5%🇩🇪 Offenburg 20.5%🇮🇹 Savona 20.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.3% 228 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Potsdam 0.3%🇩🇪 Reutlingen 0.3%🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 0.3%🇫🇷 Toulon 0.3%Ulm🇦🇹 Vienna 0.3%🇳🇱 Amsterdam 0.2%🇮🇹 Bologna 0.2%🇫🇷 Lyon 0.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 22.9% 493 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Neuwied 23.6%🇩🇪 Bensheim 23.5%🇩🇪 Görlitz 23.1%🇩🇪 Heidelberg 23.1%Ulm🇪🇸 San Fernando 22.7%🇩🇪 Remscheid 22.6%🇩🇪 Landshut 22.5%🇩🇪 Schwerin 22.4%

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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