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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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 40k · 287 venues mapped

Bensheim

Where Bensheim places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is vanish at lunch, where it ranks 144 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Darmstadt 21 km Nearest written profile 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 📖 179 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink287 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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4%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
55h
open per week
27%
take a midday break
Shops & errands135 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
24%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Services73 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
3%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
19%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
147
umbrella days a year
34.8 m
of rain since 1981
611
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
137.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:28
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.3 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,843
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBensheim RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.1% 259 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Katowice 4.2%🇧🇴 La Paz 4.2%🇨🇿 České Budějovice 4.2%🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte 4.1%Bensheim🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 4.1%🇬🇧 Chesterfield 4.1%🇺🇬 Kampala 4.1%🇸🇰 Nitra 4.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 54.8 h 204 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Margate 55 h🇩🇪 Münster 55 h🇪🇨 Quito 55 h🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 55 hBensheim🇨🇭 Wettingen 54.8 h🇫🇷 Belfort 54.5 h🇬🇧 Folkestone 54.5 h🇩🇪 Görlitz 54.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 2.7% 445 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Arnhem 2.8%🇰🇷 Gwangju 2.8%🇵🇾 Presidente Franco 2.8%🇸🇪 Västerås 2.8%Bensheim🇩🇪 Göppingen 2.7%🇱🇹 Klaipėda 2.7%🇮🇪 Swords 2.7%🇱🇹 Šiauliai 2.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 26.7% 144 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Zurich 27.3%🇪🇸 Valencia 27.2%🇦🇷 Salta 27%🇯🇵 Kumamoto 26.8%Bensheim🇮🇹 Turin 26.7%🇮🇹 Follonica 26.5%🇪🇸 Granollers 26.5%🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 26.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.7% 224 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Remscheid 0.8%🇷🇴 Sibiu 0.8%🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 0.7%🇧🇦 Banja Luka 0.7%Bensheim🇪🇸 Bilbao 0.7%🇬🇧 Canterbury 0.7%🇩🇪 Darmstadt 0.7%🇺🇸 Des Moines 0.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 23.5% 491 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Iserlohn 23.9%🇨🇭 Kreuzlingen 23.9%🇩🇪 Aschaffenburg 23.7%🇩🇪 Neuwied 23.6%Bensheim🇩🇪 Görlitz 23.1%🇩🇪 Heidelberg 23.1%🇩🇪 Ulm 22.9%🇪🇸 San Fernando 22.7%

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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