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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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🇨🇭 Switzerland · metro 689k · 6,593 venues mapped

Zurich

Where Zurich 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 140 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Zurich in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇨🇭 Wettingen 20 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Milan 📖 217 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Zurich 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 & drink6,593 places mapped
10:30–22:00
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6%
open past midnight
60%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
27%
take a midday break
Shops & errands2,815 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
30%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
Services68 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
4%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
50%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
183
umbrella days a year
58.1 m
of rain since 1981
76
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
335.7 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
2.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:38
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16 h
longest day of the year
4
public holidays, 2024
13,797
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureZurich RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.6% 244 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Schaffhausen 5.6%🇮🇩 Seririt 5.6%🇺🇦 Ternopil 5.6%🇵🇱 Tychy 5.6%Zurich🇩🇪 Bamberg 5.5%🇧🇳 Bandar Seri Begawan 5.5%🇦🇺 Brisbane 5.5%🇩🇪 Hamburg 5.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 59.5 h 183 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Straubing 59.5 h🇯🇵 Tsuruoka 59.5 h🇪🇨 Tulcán 59.5 h🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 59.5 hZurich🇦🇷 San Juan 59.2 h🇦🇺 Bendigo 59 h🇩🇪 Dessau 59 h🇩🇰 Esbjerg 59 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 15.1% 321 of 1,878 🇨🇦 London 15.2%🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 15.2%🇪🇸 A Coruña 15.1%🇸🇦 Riyadh 15.1%Zurich🇬🇧 Banbury 15%🇧🇷 Campina Grande 15%🇨🇳 Changsha 15%🇬🇧 Chesterfield 15%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 27.3% 140 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Celle 27.6%🇮🇹 Siena 27.4%🇩🇪 Saarlouis 27.3%🇮🇹 Trieste 27.3%Zurich🇪🇸 Valencia 27.2%🇦🇷 Salta 27%🇯🇵 Kumamoto 26.8%🇩🇪 Bensheim 26.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.2% 229 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Ravensburg 0.2%🇫🇷 Rouen 0.2%🇸🇪 Stockholm 0.2%🇫🇷 Toulouse 0.2%Zurich🇨🇭 Bern 0.1%🇧🇪 Brussels 0.1%🇫🇷 Montpellier 0.1%🇩🇪 Stuttgart 0.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 29.9% 451 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Murcia 30.2%🇩🇪 Aachen 30.1%🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 29.9%🇩🇪 Krefeld 29.9%Zurich🇩🇪 Unna 29.8%🇩🇪 Gütersloh 29.4%🇪🇸 Donostia / San Sebastián 29.3%🇩🇪 Osnabrück 29.3%

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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