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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 136k · 776 venues mapped

Cambridge

Where Cambridge 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 110 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Stevenage 40 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 79 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 — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink776 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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5%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
64h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
Shops & errands238 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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1%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
93h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Culture206 places mapped
09:00–17:00
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0%
open past midnight
35%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
16%
open 24/7
Services85 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
21%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
138
umbrella days a year
31.1 m
of rain since 1981
39
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
520.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:49
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.8 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,466
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCambridge RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.9% 251 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Würzburg 5%🇩🇪 Aschaffenburg 4.9%🇫🇷 Bayonne 4.9%🇧🇷 Brasilia 4.9%Cambridge🇺🇸 Davenport 4.9%🇩🇪 Freilassing 4.9%🇬🇧 Grays 4.9%🇵🇱 Krakow 4.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 64 h 164 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Aveiro 64.5 h🇬🇧 Eastleigh 64.5 h🇩🇪 Passau 64.5 h🇮🇹 Trieste 64.5 hCambridge🇦🇹 Linz 64 h🇯🇵 Nagano 64 h🇳🇴 Trondheim 64 h🇫🇮 Turku 64 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.7% 365 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Maykop 10.8%🇨🇭 Montreux 10.8%🇫🇷 Paris 10.8%🇧🇷 São Paulo 10.8%Cambridge🇫🇷 Chambéry 10.7%🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 10.7%🇮🇪 Cork 10.7%🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 10.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 9.1% 293 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Wollongong 9.4%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 9.3%🇬🇧 High Wycombe 9.3%🇰🇷 Busan 9.1%Cambridge🇬🇧 King's Lynn 9.1%🇺🇸 Portland 9.1%🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 9.1%🇬🇷 Volos 9.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 0%🇫🇷 Caen 0%🇵🇷 Caguas 0%🇬🇧 Camberley 0%Cambridge🇧🇷 Campina Grande 0%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 0%🇬🇧 Carlisle 0%🇮🇹 Caserta 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 88.3% 110 of 1,704 🇮🇩 Semarang 88.5%🇯🇵 Toyohashi 88.5%🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 88.5%🇨🇴 Armenia 88.4%Cambridge🇺🇸 Duncanville 88.3%🇺🇸 Fall River 88.3%🇺🇸 Trenton 88.3%🇬🇧 Bristol 88.2%

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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