🇮🇳 India · metro 3.8M · 314 venues mapped

Varanasi

Where Varanasi 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 77 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇳 Lucknow 269 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 1,797 km

Typical weather

1981–present

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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit

Best time to visit Jan, Feb, Oct, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues

Food & drink314 places mapped

09:00–21:45

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open past midnight

93%

open on Sundays

86h

open per week

13%

open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured

127

muggy days a year

155

nights/yr the bedroom never cools

days over 30 °C, of 16,630

volcanoes within 100 km

1166.5 km

to Ashikule Volcanic Field

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

17:13

winter sunset (solar approx.)

13.7 h

longest day of the year

public holidays, 2024

7,260

km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues

Measure	Varanasi	Rank	Nearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink	0%	296 of 1,878	🇧🇪 Tournai 0%🇭🇰 Tsuen Wan 0%🇪🇨 Tulcán 0%🇨🇴 Tunja 0%Varanasi🇮🇳 Visakhapatnam 0%🇮🇩 Watampone 0%🇨🇳 Wenjiang 0%🇬🇧 Weston-super-Mare 0%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink	85.8 h	77 of 1,878	🇩🇿 Meftah 85.8 h🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 85.8 h🇭🇷 Pula 85.8 h🇺🇸 Trenton 85.8 hVaranasi🇺🇸 Willoughby 85.8 h🇺🇸 Albuquerque 85.5 h🇺🇦 Bila Tserkva 85.5 h🇺🇸 Fargo 85.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink	16.7%	305 of 1,878	🇬🇧 Redditch 16.7%🇸🇻 Sonsonate 16.7%🇯🇵 Takaoka 16.7%🇨🇦 Vancouver 16.7%Varanasi🇲🇾 Johor Bahru 16.6%🇬🇧 Leicester 16.6%🇨🇾 Larnaca 16.5%🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 16.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break	0%	384 of 1,878	🇹🇭 Ubon Ratchathani 0%🇮🇳 Udaipur 0%🇹🇭 Udon Thani 0%🇨🇱 Valparaíso 0%Varanasi🇧🇬 Varna 0%🇳🇱 Veenendaal 0%🇺🇸 Virginia Beach 0%🇮🇳 Visakhapatnam 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7	13.3%	99 of 1,878	🇦🇷 Cipolletti 13.3%🇭🇹 Port-au-Prince 13.3%🇱🇧 Sidon 13.3%🇵🇭 Tarlac City 13.3%Varanasi🇺🇦 Kharkiv 13.2%🇷🇺 Tver 13.2%🇦🇴 Luanda 13.1%🇹🇷 Denizli 13%

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.

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