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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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🇫🇷 France · metro 643k · 3,023 venues mapped

Bordeaux

Where Bordeaux 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 58 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Royan 94 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Bilbao 📖 257 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 & drink3,023 places mapped
11:30–22:15
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12%
open past midnight
59%
open on Sundays
47h
open per week
39%
take a midday break
Shops & errands1,356 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
73%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
16%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Services903 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
3%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
48%
take a midday break
Culture743 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
24%
open on Sundays
32h
open per week
19%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
135
umbrella days a year
35.8 m
of rain since 1981
1,039
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
297.6 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:24
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.6 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,441
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBordeaux RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.9% 181 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Thun 12%🇦🇹 Wels 12%🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch 11.9%🇺🇸 Baton Rouge 11.9%Bordeaux🇺🇸 Chico 11.9%🇯🇵 Kofu 11.9%🇸🇮 Maribor 11.9%🇺🇸 Memphis 11.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 47.2 h 237 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Rennes 47.5 h🇫🇷 Toulon 47.5 h🇧🇷 Uberlândia 47.5 h🇮🇹 Viareggio 47.5 hBordeaux🇧🇷 Nova Lima 47 h🇮🇹 Pesaro 47 h🇩🇪 Zwickau 47 h🇳🇱 Deventer 46.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.7% 415 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Sapiranga 5.8%🇷🇺 Sochi 5.8%🇵🇱 Toruń 5.8%🇵🇹 Albufeira 5.7%Bordeaux🇩🇪 Dortmund 5.7%🇵🇱 Gliwice 5.7%🇩🇪 Gütersloh 5.7%🇯🇵 Hirosaki 5.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 38.9% 58 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Annecy 39.2%🇧🇪 La Louvière 39.1%🇫🇷 Nantes 39.1%🇫🇷 Caen 39%Bordeaux🇫🇷 Béziers 38.9%🇯🇵 Iida 38.9%🇫🇷 Lyon 38.8%🇮🇹 Cremona 38.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.4% 227 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Udine 0.5%🇪🇸 Valencia 0.5%🇺🇸 Williamsburg 0.5%🇳🇱 Amersfoort 0.4%Bordeaux🇮🇹 Brescia 0.4%🇧🇪 Charleroi 0.4%🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 0.4%🇩🇰 Copenhagen 0.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 72.6% 230 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Cosenza 72.7%🇮🇹 Latina 72.7%🇧🇷 Londrina 72.7%🇫🇷 Montpellier 72.7%Bordeaux🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 72.6%🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 72.5%🇧🇷 Manaus 72.3%🇨🇲 Yaoundé 72.2%

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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