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🇪🇸 Spain · metro 1.4M · 4,312 venues mapped

Valencia

Where Valencia places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 95 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Valencia in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇪🇸 Gandia 59 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Madrid 📖 302 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, Jun, 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 & drink4,312 places mapped
11:30–23:30
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21%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
61h
open per week
27%
take a midday break
Shops & errands1,709 places mapped
09:00–21:30
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2%
open past midnight
38%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
Services989 places mapped
08:30–20:22
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0%
open past midnight
31%
open on Sundays
55h
open per week
25%
take a midday break
6%
open 24/7
Culture626 places mapped
10:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
52%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
25%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
72
umbrella days a year
17.8 m
of rain since 1981
3,530
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
320.9 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,317
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureValencia RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 21.3% 95 of 1,878 🇺🇿 Tashkent 21.5%🇪🇸 Granada 21.4%🇵🇭 Puerto Princesa 21.4%🇯🇵 Shizuoka 21.4%Valencia🇰🇭 Kampot 21.2%🇮🇹 Palermo 21.2%🇺🇸 Yuma 21.2%🇮🇹 Lecce 21.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 61 h 177 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 61 h🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 61 h🇨🇭 Solothurn 61 h🇸🇪 Umeå 61 hValencia🇬🇧 York 61 h🇬🇧 Ipswich 60.8 h🇬🇧 Luton 60.8 h🇳🇱 Zwolle 60.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9% 382 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Zelenograd 9.1%🇬🇧 Crewe 9%🇪🇸 Gijón 9%🇯🇵 Kofu 9%Valencia🇵🇱 Warsaw 9%🇫🇷 Arras 8.9%🇷🇴 Bucharest 8.9%🇨🇺 Ciego de Ávila 8.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 27.2% 141 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Siena 27.4%🇩🇪 Saarlouis 27.3%🇮🇹 Trieste 27.3%🇨🇭 Zurich 27.3%Valencia🇦🇷 Salta 27%🇯🇵 Kumamoto 26.8%🇩🇪 Bensheim 26.7%🇮🇹 Turin 26.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.5% 226 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Rosario 0.5%🇺🇸 Temecula 0.5%🇮🇹 Treviso 0.5%🇮🇹 Udine 0.5%Valencia🇺🇸 Williamsburg 0.5%🇳🇱 Amersfoort 0.4%🇫🇷 Bordeaux 0.4%🇮🇹 Brescia 0.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 38.5% 413 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 40%🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 39.6%🇨🇭 Neuchâtel 39%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 38.8%Valencia🇮🇹 Trento 38.3%🇩🇪 Münster 37.6%🇨🇭 Locarno 37.5%🇧🇦 Mostar 37.5%

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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