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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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 75k · 461 venues mapped

Flensburg

Where Flensburg 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 207 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Kiel 69 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇰 Copenhagen 📖 222 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Flensburg 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 & drink461 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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6%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
Shops & errands313 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
45%
open on Sundays
81h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Culture115 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
36%
open on Sundays
38h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Services95 places mapped
08:15–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
3%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
13%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
164
umbrella days a year
37.4 m
of rain since 1981
1
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
542.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:57
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.3 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,877
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureFlensburg RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.8% 242 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 5.9%🇵🇱 Warsaw 5.9%🇺🇸 Waterbury 5.9%🇳🇱 Deventer 5.8%Flensburg🇺🇸 Harrisburg 5.8%🇨🇳 Jiangshan 5.8%🇷🇺 Kislovodsk 5.8%🇬🇧 Livingston 5.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 54 h 207 of 1,878 🇨🇱 Antofagasta 54 h🇩🇪 Darmstadt 54 h🇦🇹 Dornbirn 54 h🇩🇪 Erlangen 54 hFlensburg🇩🇪 Freilassing 54 h🇯🇵 Fujikawaguchiko 54 h🇦🇺 Geelong 54 h🇩🇪 Gütersloh 54 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.4% 418 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Stavropol 5.5%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 5.5%🇳🇱 Amsterdam 5.4%🇦🇹 Bregenz 5.4%Flensburg🇧🇷 Recife 5.4%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 5.4%🇸🇪 Södertälje 5.4%🇧🇪 Temse 5.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 10.4% 284 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Swindon 10.5%🇹🇼 Tainan 10.5%🇬🇧 Bedford 10.4%🇨🇳 Fangshan 10.4%Flensburg🇩🇪 Dortmund 10.3%🇩🇪 Hildesheim 10.3%🇮🇳 Mangaluru 10.3%🇧🇷 Florianópolis 10.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.4% 227 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Charleroi 0.4%🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 0.4%🇩🇰 Copenhagen 0.4%🇩🇪 Erlangen 0.4%Flensburg🇵🇱 Gdynia 0.4%🇩🇪 Kiel 0.4%🇩🇪 Krefeld 0.4%🇫🇷 Lille 0.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 44.6% 394 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Aosta 45.5%🇪🇸 Torrevieja 45.3%🇹🇿 Mwanza 45%🇫🇷 Colmar 44.6%Flensburg🇩🇪 Kehl 44.6%🇸🇰 Prievidza 44.4%🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 44.2%🇮🇹 Asti 43.8%

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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