When it comes to partying on New Year’s Eve, Russians take the cake, staying at celebrations — and away from their beds of slumber — until almost 4 a.m., on average.
That bedtime is far and away later than Americans, who hit the hay at an average time of 12:55 a.m., The Mirror reported.
The data was collected via fitness tracker Jawbone, which sells wristbands that monitor the wearer’s activity — whether sleeping or moving. The company collected data on the average times people went to sleep in cities around the world on New Year’s Eve — and Moscow and St. Petersburg residents, with average bedtimes of 3:43 a.m. and 3:35 a.m., respectively, seemed to stay up latest, The Mirror said.
Those living in Kiev, Ukraine, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Madrid all stayed up, on average, past 3 a.m.
America, meanwhile, hit the sleepy end of the scale, as did most United Kingdom cities and Australians, The Mirror reported. The average U.S. bedtime was 12:55 a.m.; the average Australian’s, 12:53 a.m. The Irish headed to sleep around 1:59 a.m., on average, and Israelis, around 12:45 a.m., the data showed. China residents were the sleepiest, turning in on New Year’s around 12:42 a.m., the Times of Israel reported.
So why Russia?
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The penchant for partying in Moscow and St. Petersburg is due largely to the fact that Christmas was banned during the Soviet era, leading residents to start celebrating both the religious holiday and the New Year at the same time, the report authors said, according to The Times of Israel.
• Cheryl K. Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.
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