--- ---  # The Most Well-Rested and Sleep-Deprived Cities in the World ## 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. The Cities That Sleep the Most and the Least ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3136406/jawbone-cities-sleep/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3136406/jawbone-cities-sleep/"},"headline":"The Most Well-Rested and Sleep-Deprived Cities in the World","datePublished":"2014-08-18T17:15:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:31.804Z","description":"Based on data crunched by Jawbone, a fitness tracker","url":"https://time.com/3136406/jawbone-cities-sleep/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0be76482bcaea9af/69869fe6cd804d86dbccc62f/tokyo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0be76482bcaea9af/69869fe6cd804d86dbccc62f/tokyo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"tokyo","caption":"The Marunouchi district of Tokyo, Japan.","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3136406/jawbone-cities-sleep/","name":"The Most Well-Rested and Sleep-Deprived Cities in the World"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Sleepiest City In The World Is …","description":"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.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/o6MWvmzM/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-19T16:31:52.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/o6MWvmzM.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3136406/jawbone-cities-sleep/","duration":"PT1M26S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3136406/jawbone-cities-sleep/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```