--- title: The Cities That Sleep the Most and the Least description: Residents of Melbourne sleep the most, while residents of Tokyo sleep the least. canonical: https://time.com/3136406/jawbone-cities-sleep/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-18T17:15:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:42.175Z og:title: This Is the Most Sleep-Deprived City in the World og:description: Hint: It's not New York og:url: https://time.com/3136406/jawbone-cities-sleep/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0be76482bcaea9af/69869fe6cd804d86dbccc62f/tokyo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: tokyo og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is the Most Sleep-Deprived City in the World twitter:description: Hint: It's not New York twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0be76482bcaea9af/69869fe6cd804d86dbccc62f/tokyo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Most Well-Rested and Sleep-Deprived Cities in the World > Sponsored content. 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Named editors include Richard Hall (The Brief), Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs (Inside TIME), Eliza Berman (Worth Your Time), Philip Elliott (D.C. Brief), Justin Worland (Future Proof) and Harry Booth (In the Loop). Health Matters is written by TIME's health desk. #### How do I sign up for a TIME newsletter? Go to time.com/newsletters, choose the newsletters you want and enter your email address. There is no cost and no subscription requirement. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/newsletters?i=43e02e08-2739-45b2-839d-313a0012abec&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1) ## Video: The Sleepiest City In The World Is … [Watch (HLS stream): The Sleepiest City In The World Is …](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/o6MWvmzM.m3u8) (1:26)  _Published 2014-08-19. Jawbone, the make of smart fitness wristband UP, tracked its users’ sleep habits and steps to figure out which major city gets the most and least Z’s in the world._  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Aug 18, 2014 5:15 PM UTC  The Marunouchi district of Tokyo, Japan. The Marunouchi district of Tokyo, Japan. Getty Images  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Aug 18, 2014 5:15 PM UTC The title of the world’s most well-rested city goes to Melbourne, Australia, whose residents log an average of 6 hours and 58 minutes of sleep per night, the _Wall Street Journal_ [recently reported](http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/which-cities-get-the-most-sleep-1662/), based on data obtained from [Jawbone’s UP](https://jawbone.com/blog/jawbone-up-data-by-city/), an electronic wristband that tracks sleeping and movement patterns. The city that sleeps the least, though, isn’t the city that never sleeps—it’s Tokyo, Japan, where residents get an average of 5 hours and 44 minutes of sleep. (New Yorkers sleep an average of 6 hours and 47 minutes per night, not too far behind Melbourne residents.) Meanwhile, Brisbane, Australia takes two crowns: the city with the earliest average bedtime (10:57 p.m.) and the city with the earliest average wake-up time (6:29 a.m.). Residents of Moscow, Russia, wake up the latest with an average time of 8:08 a.m. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Get some coffee quick. We're about to either make you very jealous of the best rested cities in the world, or feel very bad for Tokyo. Guess that pretty well gives it away that Tokyo residents don't seem to shut it down. Sleeping less than people in any other major city on earth at an average of just. Five hours 44 minutes a day. The Wall Street Journal published a list of the cities that get the most and least zzz through a one year dataset provided by Jawbone. Jawbone is the maker of Up, a smart fitness wristband that tracks whether you're awake or asleep and how many steps you take in a given day. The city with the most sleep, try to control your envy for Melbourne, Australia. The city's residents logged an average of six hours, 58 minutes of sleep at night, a pretty significant hour and 14 minutes longer than their exhausted neighbors to the north in Tokyo. Wake up, Prime Minister. Other notable cities to make the list, Brisbane was voted the earliest to bed and to rise. Calling it quits at 10: 57 p. m. and waking up just before 6: 30 a. m. Moscow stays up and sleeps in, the latest. 12: 46 p. m. for average bed time and they don't get up until 8: 08 a. m. Nice wake up time. In a word, duh! And as for the city that never sleeps. Sleeps, well, apparently you do, New York. 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