Hopefully you were able to sleep in this morning because I'm sure you had a wild New Year's Eve. Maybe you didn't even go to sleep yet, you party animal you.
But just because you think you party harder than anyone in the world doesn't mean that's necessarily true. In fact, your city or even country might be filled with wet blankets compared to people halfway across the world.
Jawbone recently analyzed some data from hundreds of thousands of users of the company's activity tracker the UP to see when people around the world went to sleep on New Year's Eve in 2013. Of course, the data for last night's festivities isn't available yet, but the results are still fascinating nonetheless.
Romania is the country with the most night owls it seems. On New Year's Eve 2013, the average bedtime was 3:55 a.m., and 96.8 percent of UP wearers were awake at midnight. Nearby Russia was not far behind with an average bedtime of 3:36 a.m. and 95.4 percent of people awake at midnight. The cities that stay up the latest in the world are also in this part of the globe: Moscow, Russia (3:43 a.m.), St. Petersburg, Russia (3:35 a.m.) and Kiev, Ukraine (3:35 a.m.).
Apparently, New Year's Eve is something of a "superholiday" for Russia, incorporating Christmas traditions into the festivities as well. With a mega-party like that, you've got to stay up late.
It turns out that the United States does not party as hard as you think. Out of the 54 countries included in this study, the U.S. had the fifth earliest average bedtime at 12:55 a.m. To top it all off, nearly 30 percent of people didn't even stay up until midnight to ring in the New Year. Now that's kind of lame, don't you think?
At least New Yorkers can feel proud. "The city that never sleeps" lives up to its name on New Year's Eve. The cities that stayed up the latest in 2013 were all a part of New York City: Astoria, Queens (2:38 a.m.), Bronx (2:21 a.m.), Brooklyn (2:11 a.m.) and New York, N.Y. (1:59 a.m.).
Citizens of China and Israel went to sleep the earliest in 2013 at 12:42 a.m. and 12:45 a.m., respectively. However, there's a good explanation for this. The main New Year's celebrations for China and Israel are the Chinese New Year in February and Rosh Hashanah in September, respectively. Staying up until midnight isn't a tradition of Rosh Hashanah, so Israelis still don't really stay up that late during the holiday. However, the Chinese party late into the night for their New Year's celebration.
If you're disappointed that your city or country didn't perform as well as you had hoped, well, there's always next year.
