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The Anti-Awards

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The weather6
The Sauna You Can’t LeaveThe Bedroom That Never CoolsThe Umbrella EconomyRain, By The MetreSixteen Thousand DaysThe Year Without a Window
The hours it keeps6
The Cinderella ClauseThe Early Bedtime AwardThe Sunday Ghost TownThe Breakfast DesertThe Great Lunch VanishingThe Part-Time City
Getting out5
The Great Escape IndexHardest City to Leave (In a Hurry)The Domestic BubbleThe Hibernating AirportThe Perth Meridian
The ground and the sky4
The Wobbliest GroundThe Volcano PartyThe Volcano Next DoorThe 3 p.m. Sunset Club
Everything else3
The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 84k · 1,611 venues mapped

Bath

Where Bath places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 73 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Bristol 19 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 156 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jul, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,611 places mapped
10:00–22:00
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4%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
62h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
Shops & errands394 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
Culture318 places mapped
10:00–17:00
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0%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
17%
open 24/7
Services171 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
7%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
168
umbrella days a year
36.7 m
of rain since 1981
35
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
661 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:03
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.6 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,633
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBath RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.2% 258 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Siegen 4.3%🇵🇪 Trujillo 4.3%🇺🇸 Watsonville 4.3%🇬🇧 Basingstoke 4.2%Bath🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 4.2%🇵🇱 Katowice 4.2%🇧🇴 La Paz 4.2%🇨🇿 České Budějovice 4.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 62 h 172 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Livingston 62.5 h🇨🇭 Olten 62.5 h🇵🇱 Świdnica 62.5 h🇮🇹 Cosenza 62.1 hBath🇨🇭 Biel/Bienne 62 h🇬🇧 Brighton 62 h🇯🇵 Koriyama 62 h🇨🇭 Lausanne 62 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.4% 338 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 13.6%🇷🇸 Belgrade 13.5%🇪🇸 Bilbao 13.5%🇮🇷 Shiraz 13.5%Bath🇮🇩 Jakarta 13.4%🇫🇷 Le Havre 13.4%🇬🇧 Nottingham 13.4%🇬🇧 Swansea 13.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 5.7% 327 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 5.8%🇦🇺 Melbourne 5.8%🇬🇧 York 5.8%🇬🇧 Bangor 5.7%Bath🇨🇳 Fuyang 5.7%🇧🇷 Joinville 5.7%🇮🇩 Pekanbaru 5.7%🇮🇳 Pune 5.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.8% 223 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Santa Rosa 0.9%🇺🇸 Warren 0.9%🇩🇪 Aachen 0.8%🇳🇱 Alkmaar 0.8%Bath🇺🇸 Bellingham 0.8%🇩🇪 Bielefeld 0.8%🇺🇸 Chester 0.8%🇫🇷 Dijon 0.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 92.6% 73 of 1,704 🇨🇦 Abbotsford 92.7%🇺🇸 Rapid City 92.7%🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 92.7%🇬🇧 Barry 92.6%Bath🇬🇧 Chesterfield 92.6%🇷🇴 Craiova 92.6%🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 92.6%🇺🇸 Ocala 92.6%

The same questions are asked of the 126 cities with a written profile, where each one gets its method and its full standings: kitchens open past midnight, hours open per week, open before 8 a.m., vanish at lunch, shops open on sunday.

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