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The weather6
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The hours it keeps6
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Getting out5
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The ground and the sky4
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🇺🇸 United States · metro 102k · 205 venues mapped

Wichita Falls

Where Wichita Falls 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Little Elm 167 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Austin 📖 412 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Wichita Falls 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 & drink205 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
19%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands98 places mapped
06:00–23:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
119h
open per week
38%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
57
muggy days a year
32
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
88
umbrella days a year
36.3 m
of rain since 1981
5,729
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
686.8 km
to Carrizozo
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:29
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
16,816
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureWichita Falls RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 18.7% 115 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Barcelona 18.9%🇷🇺 Kaliningrad 18.9%🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 18.8%🇷🇸 Novi Sad 18.7%Wichita Falls🇺🇸 Charlotte 18.6%🇵🇹 Coimbra 18.6%🇨🇭 Solothurn 18.6%🇷🇺 Tver 18.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 105 h 18 of 1,878 🇹🇳 Sousse 105 h🇦🇱 Tirana 105 h🇧🇦 Tuzla 105 h🇮🇳 Visakhapatnam 105 hWichita Falls🇺🇿 Yangiyul 105 h🇩🇿 Zeralda 105 h🇺🇸 Arlington 104 h🇺🇸 Hamilton 104 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 56% 16 of 1,878 🇺🇸 New Bedford 57.4%🇨🇳 Nanchang 57.1%🇺🇸 Hamilton 56.6%🇺🇸 The Woodlands 56.5%Wichita Falls🇺🇸 Bayonet Point 55.4%🇺🇸 San Clemente 55%🇺🇸 Brockton 54.8%🇬🇹 Guatemala City 54.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.7% 357 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 2.7%🇺🇸 Montgomery 2.7%🇺🇸 Naples 2.7%🇧🇷 Recife 2.7%Wichita Falls🇸🇰 Bratislava 2.6%🇸🇪 Helsingborg 2.6%🇵🇪 Huaraz 2.6%🇮🇳 Kolkata 2.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.7% 204 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Reading 2.7%🇺🇸 Schenectady 2.7%🇬🇧 Sunderland 2.7%🇬🇧 Torquay 2.7%Wichita Falls🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 2.7%🇺🇸 Yakima 2.7%🇵🇱 Zakopane 2.7%🇬🇧 Bognor Regis 2.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Waterbury 100%🇺🇸 Watsonville 100%🇺🇸 West Haven 100%🇺🇸 Wheaton 100%Wichita Falls🇺🇸 Wilkes-Barre 100%🇺🇸 Willoughby 100%🇨🇦 Windsor 100%🇺🇦 Yalta 100%

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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