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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 86k · 2,854 venues mapped

Chester-le-Street

Where Chester-le-Street 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 46 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Durham 9 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇪 Dublin 📖 349 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Chester-le-Street does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink2,854 places mapped
11:00–22:45
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10%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,097 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Culture484 places mapped
09:30–17:15
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0%
open past midnight
27%
open on Sundays
35h
open per week
9%
open 24/7
Services331 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
36%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
176
umbrella days a year
37.8 m
of rain since 1981
1
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
771.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.3 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,581
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureChester-le-Street RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.5% 195 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Eugene 10.6%🇺🇸 San Marcos 10.6%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 10.6%🇺🇸 Allen 10.5%Chester-le-Street🇷🇺 Krasnoyarsk 10.5%🇬🇭 Kumasi 10.5%🇮🇶 Mosul 10.5%🇧🇷 Novo Hamburgo 10.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 70 h🇺🇸 Charlottesville 70 h🇨🇦 Charlottetown 70 h🇬🇧 Chelmsford 70 hChester-le-Street🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 70 h🇹🇭 Chiang Rai 70 h🇮🇹 Chieti 70 h🇲🇽 Ciudad Juárez 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 14.5% 327 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Barcelona 14.6%🇬🇧 Bournemouth 14.6%🇶🇦 Doha 14.6%🇭🇺 Pécs 14.6%Chester-le-Street🇬🇧 Dundee 14.5%🇵🇱 Przemyśl 14.5%🇲🇽 Toluca 14.5%🇬🇧 Wishaw 14.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.6% 338 of 1,878 🇨🇾 Larnaca 4.7%🇺🇸 Simi Valley 4.7%🇬🇧 Telford 4.7%🇬🇧 Chester 4.6%Chester-le-Street🇦🇷 Mar del Plata 4.6%🇺🇸 Asheville 4.5%🇵🇭 Cabiao 4.5%🇿🇼 Harare 4.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.2% 199 of 1,878 🇭🇷 Rijeka 3.3%🇺🇸 Spring Valley 3.3%🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 3.3%🇬🇷 Chania 3.2%Chester-le-Street🇮🇹 Cremona 3.2%🇺🇸 Lake in the Hills 3.2%🇺🇸 Lincoln 3.2%🇺🇸 Lowell 3.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95.3% 46 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Winston-Salem 95.5%🇺🇸 El Paso 95.4%🇺🇸 Portland 95.4%🇺🇸 Birmingham 95.3%Chester-le-Street🇺🇸 Daytona Beach 95.3%🇷🇸 Kragujevac 95.3%🇺🇦 Rivne 95.3%🇺🇸 Asheville 95.2%

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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