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The Anti-Awards

24 rankings. Every one is the true extreme of a real measurement — there is no worst city, only cities magnificently bad at one specific thing.

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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 437k · 3,556 venues mapped

Belfast

Where Belfast 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 89 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Bangor 18 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇪 Dublin 📖 142 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Belfast does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink3,556 places mapped
09:00–21:30
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7%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,910 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
99h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Culture825 places mapped
09:30–19:00
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5%
open past midnight
38%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
Services382 places mapped
08:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
44%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
197
umbrella days a year
47.6 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
994.9 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:00
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.3 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,862
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBelfast RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7% 230 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Stoke-on-Trent 7.1%🇯🇵 Takaoka 7.1%🇷🇺 Zelenograd 7.1%🇷🇺 Abakan 7%Belfast🇩🇪 Berlin 7%🇺🇸 Boardman 7%🇬🇧 Canterbury 7%🇺🇸 Chester 7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Redding 77.5 h🇧🇬 Sofia 77.2 h🇪🇸 Torrevieja 77.2 h🇬🇧 Basingstoke 77 hBelfast🇺🇸 Bend 77 h🇬🇧 Blantyre 77 h🇺🇸 Boston 77 h🇺🇸 Bozeman 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 25.7% 221 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Cremona 25.8%🇨🇳 Guangzhou 25.8%🇺🇸 Hilo 25.8%🇨🇦 Oshawa 25.8%Belfast🇮🇹 Arezzo 25.6%🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 25.6%🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 25.5%🇨🇭 Lugano 25.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.3% 361 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Tuscaloosa 2.4%🇺🇸 West Haven 2.4%🇳🇱 Amsterdam 2.3%🇨🇴 Armenia 2.3%Belfast🇺🇸 Camarillo 2.3%🇮🇪 Dublin 2.3%🇺🇸 Franklin 2.3%🇬🇧 Gillingham 2.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.7% 184 of 1,878 🇰🇿 Shymkent 4.8%🇷🇺 Stavropol 4.8%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 4.8%🇺🇸 Abilene 4.7%Belfast🇺🇸 Bloomington 4.7%🇬🇧 Bury St Edmunds 4.7%🇨🇦 Calgary 4.7%🇺🇸 Edmond 4.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 90.8% 89 of 1,704 🇲🇽 Hermosillo 90.9%🇨🇦 Kitchener 90.9%🇳🇪 Niamey 90.9%🇮🇪 Swords 90.9%Belfast🇺🇸 Lansing 90.8%🇦🇺 Perth 90.8%🇮🇸 Reykjavik 90.8%🇮🇪 Dublin 90.7%

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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