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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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 566k · 3,704 venues mapped

Dresden

Where Dresden places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 203 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Chemnitz 62 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇿 Prague 📖 117 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Dresden 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 & drink3,704 places mapped
11:00–21:30
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
55h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
Shops & errands2,012 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
18%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
Culture803 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
45%
open on Sundays
28h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Services555 places mapped
08:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
6%
open on Sundays
53h
open per week
6%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
145
umbrella days a year
32.6 m
of rain since 1981
335
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
495.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:01
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.6 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,518
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDresden RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.1% 269 of 1,878 🇭🇺 Érd 3.2%🇦🇺 Adelaide 3.1%🇳🇱 Bussum 3.1%🇻🇪 Caracas 3.1%Dresden🇩🇪 Erfurt 3.1%🇮🇷 Karaj 3.1%🇯🇵 Takayama 3.1%🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 55 h 203 of 1,878 🇳🇿 Dunedin 55.4 h🇪🇸 Granollers 55.2 h🇩🇰 Odense 55.2 h🇬🇧 Bedford 55 hDresden🇩🇪 Gießen 55 h🇳🇱 Haarlem 55 h🇫🇮 Joensuu 55 h🇳🇱 Leiden 55 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.5% 397 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Vichy 7.6%🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 7.5%🇵🇭 Apalit 7.5%🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 7.5%Dresden🇪🇸 Dénia 7.5%🇯🇵 Fukuoka 7.5%🇲🇽 Guadalajara 7.5%🇩🇪 Iserlohn 7.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 11.6% 274 of 1,878 🇧🇿 San Pedro 11.8%🇪🇸 Tarifa 11.8%🇯🇵 Kawagoe 11.7%🇬🇧 Northampton 11.7%Dresden🇩🇪 Reinbek 11.5%🇵🇹 Amora 11.4%🇩🇪 Erfurt 11.4%🇩🇪 Essen 11.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.6% 225 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Augsburg 0.6%🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 0.6%🇫🇷 Cannes 0.6%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 0.6%Dresden🇩🇪 Gießen 0.6%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 0.6%🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 0.6%🇺🇸 Madison 0.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 18.2% 523 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Magdeburg 18.4%🇩🇪 Neumünster 18.4%🇩🇪 Bamberg 18.3%🇪🇸 Gijón 18.3%Dresden🇪🇸 Córdoba 17.2%🇩🇪 Saarlouis 16.9%🇩🇪 Kempten (Allgäu) 16.8%🇦🇹 Wels 16.8%

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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