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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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🇪🇸 Spain · metro 729k · 3,653 venues mapped

Bilbao

Where Bilbao places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 92 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Bilbao in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇪🇸 Santander 75 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Madrid 📖 323 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, Jun, Jul, 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 & drink3,653 places mapped
09:30–23:00
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19%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
82h
open per week
15%
take a midday break
Shops & errands1,357 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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2%
open past midnight
31%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
Services813 places mapped
09:00–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
8%
open on Sundays
41h
open per week
28%
take a midday break
Culture332 places mapped
09:00–20:15
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5%
open past midnight
32%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
54%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
156
umbrella days a year
43.2 m
of rain since 1981
95
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
461.8 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:39
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,602
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBilbao RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 19% 112 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Milwaukee 19.2%🇺🇸 Charleston 19.1%🇧🇷 Nova Lima 19.1%🇵🇹 Amora 19%Bilbao🇷🇺 Samara 19%🇪🇸 Santa Pola 19%🇪🇸 Barcelona 18.9%🇷🇺 Kaliningrad 18.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 81.8 h 92 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 82 h🇪🇸 Segovia 82 h🇺🇸 Spokane 82 h🇪🇸 Zamora 82 hBilbao🇬🇧 King's Lynn 81.5 h🇺🇸 Los Angeles 81.5 h🇪🇸 Avilés 81 h🇵🇭 Bamban 81 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.5% 337 of 1,878 🇩🇿 Sidi Moussa 13.6%🇵🇭 Tagaytay 13.6%🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 13.6%🇷🇸 Belgrade 13.5%Bilbao🇮🇷 Shiraz 13.5%🇬🇧 Bath 13.4%🇮🇩 Jakarta 13.4%🇫🇷 Le Havre 13.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 15.3% 241 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Torremolinos 15.7%🇦🇺 Bendigo 15.6%🇰🇷 Gwangju 15.5%🇩🇪 Marl 15.5%Bilbao🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 15.3%🇵🇹 Setúbal 15.3%🇨🇴 Cali 15.2%🇩🇪 Leipzig 15.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.7% 224 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Sibiu 0.8%🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 0.7%🇧🇦 Banja Luka 0.7%🇩🇪 Bensheim 0.7%Bilbao🇬🇧 Canterbury 0.7%🇩🇪 Darmstadt 0.7%🇺🇸 Des Moines 0.7%🇺🇸 Grand Rapids 0.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 31.4% 440 of 1,704 🇧🇴 La Paz 32.3%🇩🇪 Oldenburg 32.3%🇨🇭 Olten 31.9%🇸🇮 Ljubljana 31.7%Bilbao🇩🇪 Hamburg 31.3%🇲🇪 Podgorica 31.1%🇪🇸 Albacete 31%🇩🇪 Göttingen 31%

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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