As productivity trends swing wildly between hustle culture and burnout, one movement keeps resurfacing: the 5AM Club, popularized by Robin Sharma’s bestselling book encourages people to reclaim their mornings through discipline, focus, and early starts.
But in 2025, how many people were truly living it? PDF Expert, a productivity app for all things PDF, analyzed thousands of Instagram posts across major US cities using the #5amclub hashtag to uncover which cities were the most “productive” in 2025.
The top 5 were as follows (no. of #5amclub hashtags per 10,000 posts):…