🇧🇪 Belgium · metro 222k · 1,200 venues mapped

Charleroi

Where Charleroi 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 112 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇪 La Louvière 20 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 49 km

Typical weather

1981–present

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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit

Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues

Food & drink1,200 places mapped

11:30–22:00

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open past midnight

67%

open on Sundays

45h

open per week

31%

take a midday break

Shops & errands781 places mapped

08:30–19:00

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open past midnight

56%

open on Sundays

68h

open per week

Culture374 places mapped

09:30–17:00

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open past midnight

19%

open on Sundays

31h

open per week

Services322 places mapped

09:00–18:30

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open past midnight

open on Sundays

48h

open per week

16%

take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured

muggy days a year

nights/yr the bedroom never cools

days over 30 °C, of 16,629

volcanoes within 100 km

173 km

to West Eifel Volcanic Field

0.4

quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)

16:41

winter sunset (solar approx.)

16.4 h

longest day of the year

public holidays, 2024

14,149

km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues

Measure	Charleroi	Rank	Nearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink	4.5%	255 of 1,878	🇮🇳 Pune 4.6%🇫🇷 Agde 4.5%🇺🇸 Amarillo 4.5%🇵🇭 Cabiao 4.5%Charleroi🇺🇸 Coeur d'Alene 4.5%🇮🇩 Gresik 4.5%🇪🇨 Guayaquil 4.5%🇩🇪 Heilbronn 4.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink	45 h	246 of 1,878	🇫🇷 Orléans 45.5 h🇫🇷 Bourges 45.2 h🇫🇷 Albi 45 h🇫🇷 Angers 45 hCharleroi🇬🇧 Coleraine 45 h🇮🇹 Fano 45 h🇳🇱 Heerlen 45 h🇫🇷 La Rochelle 45 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink	4.5%	427 of 1,878	🇧🇾 Minsk 4.6%🇵🇭 Nasugbu 4.6%🇫🇷 Albi 4.5%🇫🇷 Bayonne 4.5%Charleroi🇩🇪 Coburg 4.5%🇮🇱 Haifa 4.5%🇫🇷 Niort 4.5%🇺🇦 Odesa 4.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break	30.9%	112 of 1,878	🇯🇵 Takayama 31.2%🇵🇹 Tavira 31.2%🇮🇹 Bari 31%🇯🇵 Takaoka 31%Charleroi🇫🇷 Avignon 30.7%🇪🇸 Tarragona 30.7%🇨🇭 Basel 30.5%🇫🇷 Arras 30.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7	0.4%	227 of 1,878	🇺🇸 Williamsburg 0.5%🇳🇱 Amersfoort 0.4%🇫🇷 Bordeaux 0.4%🇮🇹 Brescia 0.4%Charleroi🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 0.4%🇩🇰 Copenhagen 0.4%🇩🇪 Erlangen 0.4%🇩🇪 Flensburg 0.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail	56.1%	340 of 1,704	🇮🇹 Imola 57.1%🇵🇱 Koszalin 57.1%🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 56.7%🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 56.4%Charleroi🇫🇷 Poitiers 56.1%🇧🇷 Teresina 56.1%🇫🇷 Nantes 55.9%🇭🇺 Szombathely 55.6%

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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