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The hot meal is at midday. The evening is Abendbrot, and it is often cold.
Lunch
12:00 – 14:00
What the numbers don't tell you
The traditional habit puts the hot dish at lunch and leaves the evening to a cold meal eaten at home. People do dine out, but early: counting on a late dinner as a local habit is a mistake.
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Five hours apart, same continent
When people sit down to dinner, from the country that eats earliest to the one that eats latest.
What Clustrip does with this
This is not trivia at the bottom of a page: it is a rule inside the engine. When Clustrip builds your day, dinner lands inside this window — and the stops before and after move accordingly, so the timing actually works.
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