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The Anti-Awards

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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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🇪🇸 Spain · metro 27k · 432 venues mapped

Dénia

Where Dénia places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 85 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Gandia 29 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Valencia 📖 82 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink432 places mapped
10:30–24:00
0006121824
23%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
81h
open per week
23%
take a midday break
Shops & errands94 places mapped
09:00–21:30
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
36%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
11%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
34
muggy days a year
14
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
82
umbrella days a year
20.2 m
of rain since 1981
789
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
357.2 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
1.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.9 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,261
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDénia RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 22.6% 85 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Caserta 22.8%🇨🇱 Valparaíso 22.8%🇺🇸 Knoxville 22.7%🇪🇸 Zaragoza 22.7%Dénia🇪🇸 Gijón 22.4%🇧🇾 Hrodna 22.4%🇮🇹 Latina 22.4%🇨🇴 Chía 22.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 81 h 94 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Los Angeles 81.5 h🇪🇸 Avilés 81 h🇵🇭 Bamban 81 h🇺🇸 Bloomington 81 hDénia🇮🇳 Kollam 81 h🇦🇷 Mendoza 81 h🇵🇱 Przemyśl 81 h🇵🇭 Santo Tomas 81 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.5% 397 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 7.5%🇵🇭 Apalit 7.5%🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 7.5%🇩🇪 Dresden 7.5%Dénia🇯🇵 Fukuoka 7.5%🇲🇽 Guadalajara 7.5%🇩🇪 Iserlohn 7.5%🇬🇧 Luton 7.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 22.6% 182 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Madrid 22.9%🇵🇹 Coimbra 22.8%🇫🇷 Ajaccio 22.7%🇧🇪 Leuven 22.7%Dénia🇩🇪 Ingolstadt 22.6%🇪🇸 Roquetas de Mar 22.6%🇮🇹 Naples 22.5%🇮🇹 Rome 22.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Dessau 0%🇩🇪 Detmold 0%🇳🇱 Deventer 0%🇫🇷 Douai 0%Dénia🇺🇸 Easton 0%🇺🇸 Eau Claire 0%🇮🇱 Eilat 0%🇳🇱 Eindhoven 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 36.1% 422 of 1,704 🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 36.9%🇪🇸 Granada 36.5%🇪🇸 Cartagena 36.4%🇨🇭 Bern 36.1%Dénia🇪🇸 Santander 36%🇸🇮 Maribor 35.9%🇪🇸 Salamanca 35.9%🇪🇸 Vigo 35.3%

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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