South Africans rise and shine the earliest

SOUTH Africans are the first to rise on Mondays, are grumpy on Tuesdays and sleep for an average of six hours a night.

Leading Swedish sleep app developers used Sleep Cycle, a smartphone application that analyses a phone’s accelerometer to identify sleep phases by tracking movements in bed.

The developers compiled the data which revealed that South Africans are early birds, Americans wake up grumpy almost daily and the Chinese have the best quality slumber.

The data from more than 941 000 users in 50 countries shows that the world wakes up the earliest on Mondays with South Africans rising first at 6.09am.

South Africa ranked 38 out of 50 countries in sleep quality, with the average South African going to bed at 12.20am and getting up at 6.24am.

The information obtained from users aged between 18 and 55 from June last year to March this year, showed that South Africans woke up grumpy on Tuesdays.

The report did not provide reasons for this.

More than half the world, 58%, experienced the best sleep on Wednesdays. The US, Costa Rica, Canada, New Zealand and Sweden wake up the latest and happiest on Fridays.

But the majority of the world, 71%, wakes up in the best mood on Saturdays.

The data showed that Saturday is the world’s biggest sleep day, with nearly 90% of countries sleeping more and waking up later.

While 66% of the world wakes up in the best mood on Sundays, many users have a sleepless night.

Russia and the United Arab Emirates are the “ultimate night owls of the world“, with an average bedtime of 1.05am – 62 minutes later than the worldwide average bedtime of 12.03am.