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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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🇫🇷 France · metro 219k · 864 venues mapped

Dijon

Where Dijon 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 25 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Chalon-sur-Saône 61 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 262 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit 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 & drink864 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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10%
open past midnight
51%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week
45%
take a midday break
Shops & errands398 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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1%
open past midnight
65%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
15%
take a midday break
Culture303 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
9%
open on Sundays
35h
open per week
17%
take a midday break
Services242 places mapped
09:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
43h
open per week
64%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
144
umbrella days a year
36.7 m
of rain since 1981
240
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
230.6 km
to Chaine des Puys
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:52
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.9 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,057
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDijon RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.3% 197 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Udine 10.4%🇧🇷 Boa Vista 10.3%🇬🇧 Burnley 10.3%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 10.3%Dijon🇺🇸 Fall River 10.3%🇮🇹 Florence 10.3%🇺🇸 Greensboro 10.3%🇷🇺 Krasnodar 10.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 43.5 h 251 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Nantes 44 h🇫🇷 Auxerre 43.8 h🇯🇵 Iida 43.8 h🇫🇷 Chambéry 43.5 hDijon🇧🇪 Liège 43.4 h🇳🇱 Geleen 43 h🇫🇷 Bayonne 42.5 h🇫🇷 Niort 42.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.9% 393 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Taunton 8%🇧🇬 Varna 8%🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 7.9%🇫🇷 Cergy 7.9%Dijon🇩🇪 Offenburg 7.9%🇫🇷 Orléans 7.9%🇲🇺 Port Louis 7.9%🇷🇺 Tyumen 7.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 44.7% 25 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Maurepas 45.4%🇫🇷 Creil 45%🇮🇹 Fano 44.8%🇫🇷 Limoges 44.8%Dijon🇪🇸 Almuñécar 44.4%🇫🇷 Agen 44.3%🇩🇪 Straubing 44.1%🇫🇷 Besançon 44%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.8% 223 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Bath 0.8%🇺🇸 Bellingham 0.8%🇩🇪 Bielefeld 0.8%🇺🇸 Chester 0.8%Dijon🇺🇸 Escondido 0.8%🇧🇪 Frameries 0.8%🇩🇪 Hamburg 0.8%🇩🇪 Leipzig 0.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 65.2% 283 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Orléans 65.7%🇫🇷 Bastia 65.4%🇯🇵 Fukuchiyama 65.4%🇵🇹 Lagos 65.4%Dijon🇵🇱 Poznan 65.2%🇵🇱 Białystok 65.1%🇪🇸 Lugo 65%🇭🇷 Osijek 65%

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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