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Denver Heads To Bed Earlier Than Any Other City, Study Says

DENVER (CBS4) - Are Denver residents healthy, wealthy and wise?

They certainly are, if the old aphorism is believed to be true.

Denver goes to bed earlier than any other major metro area.

Residents in the Mile High City hit the pillow at 11:33 p.m., on average, according to data from Sleep Cycle, a company that manufactures a bio-alarm clock app that monitors sleep activity.

Rounding out the earliest snoozers are Albuquerque (11:34 p.m.), Phoenix (11:36 p.m.), Seattle and Portland (11:42 p.m.) and Minneapolis (11:47 p.m.).

That's about an hour earlier than Miami and New York, where residents stay up -- presumably to party, right? -- until 12:26 a.m. and 12:24 a.m., respectively.

Denver is tied with Houston for the second-earliest wake-up time at 6:59 a.m. Only Phoenix residents get up earlier, at 6:54 a.m. on average.

The report was created from data from 51,155 Sleep Cycle alarm clock users ages 18-55 who voluntarily shared their sleep data with the company in October.

In another study, Colorado residents suffered a huge drop -- relative to other states -- in sleep quality on the night of daylight savings.

On the night of Nov. 1 into Nov. 2, Coloradans who shared their sleep data with the company saw a 5.8 percent drop in sleep quality that night. Texas was second with a 3.3 percent drop. Florida saw the largest increase in sleep quality at 5.8 percent.

That next morning, however, Coloradans saw an increase of 3.7 percent in what Sleep Cycle calls "wake-up mood."

That study culled data from 33,821 users.

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(credit: Sleep Cycle)

- Written by Tim Skillern for CBSDenver.com

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