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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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🇵🇹 Portugal · metro 93k · 1,016 venues mapped

Braga

Where Braga 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 101 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 34 km Nearest written profile 🇵🇹 Porto 📖 47 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit 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 & drink1,016 places mapped
10:00–23:00
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
32%
take a midday break
Shops & errands458 places mapped
08:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
70%
open on Sundays
88h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
122
umbrella days a year
49.3 m
of rain since 1981
2,022
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
477.8 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:07
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.2 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
15,025
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBraga RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.4% 206 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Suzhou 9.5%🇺🇸 Troy 9.5%🇦🇹 Vienna 9.5%🇬🇧 Wakefield 9.5%Braga🇬🇧 Cardiff 9.4%🇵🇹 Funchal 9.4%🇦🇹 Graz 9.4%🇺🇸 Hemet 9.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 68 h 148 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kumamoto 68.2 h🇳🇿 Napier 68.2 h🇮🇩 Pekanbaru 68.2 h🇨🇾 Protaras 68.2 hBraga🇪🇸 Burgos 68 h🇬🇧 Chester 68 h🇬🇧 Manchester 68 h🇬🇧 Mansfield 68 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.8% 354 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Opole 12%🇨🇭 Thun 12%🇯🇵 Tokushima 12%🇩🇪 Rostock 11.9%Braga🇵🇾 Ciudad del Este 11.8%🇯🇵 Hiroshima 11.8%🇬🇧 Inverness 11.8%🇬🇷 Ioannina 11.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 32.5% 101 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Valladolid 33%🇫🇷 Vannes 33%🇮🇹 Parma 32.7%🇧🇪 Namur 32.6%Braga🇫🇷 Nice 32.5%🇪🇸 A Coruña 32.4%🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 32.4%🇫🇷 Grenoble 32.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.5% 226 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Aschaffenburg 0.5%🇵🇹 Barreiro 0.5%🇮🇹 Bergamo 0.5%🇩🇪 Bonn 0.5%Braga🇫🇷 Grenoble 0.5%🇩🇪 Göppingen 0.5%🇩🇪 Gütersloh 0.5%🇩🇪 Hagen 0.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 69.6% 256 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Cremona 70%🇮🇹 Milan 70%🇫🇷 Reims 69.9%🇫🇷 Annecy 69.7%Braga🇬🇫 Cayenne 69.6%🇫🇷 Chartres 69.6%🇮🇹 Pordenone 69.6%🇫🇷 Arras 69.4%

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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