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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 348k · 2,128 venues mapped

Grenoble

Where Grenoble 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 102 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Chambéry 46 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Turin 📖 155 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 & drink2,128 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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9%
open past midnight
52%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
32%
take a midday break
Shops & errands967 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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1%
open past midnight
61%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
25%
take a midday break
Culture694 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
16%
open on Sundays
21h
open per week
42%
take a midday break
Services548 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
57%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
134
umbrella days a year
40.4 m
of rain since 1981
154
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
223.6 km
to Chaine des Puys
1
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:58
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.6 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
13,960
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureGrenoble RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.1% 209 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Blackburn 9.1%🇩🇪 Coburg 9.1%🇬🇧 Durham 9.1%🇺🇸 Franklin 9.1%Grenoble🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 9.1%🇺🇸 Pittsburgh 9.1%🇮🇹 Ravenna 9.1%🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 9.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 45.5 h 244 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Ostend 46 h🇮🇹 Imperia 45.8 h🇪🇸 Albacete 45.5 h🇫🇷 Chalon-sur-Saône 45.5 hGrenoble🇳🇱 Heemskerk 45.5 h🇳🇱 Hoorn 45.5 h🇬🇧 Lancaster 45.5 h🇫🇷 Lyon 45.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.8% 404 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Cannes 6.8%🇨🇷 Cartago 6.8%🇸🇳 Dakar 6.8%🇬🇧 Darlington 6.8%Grenoble🇩🇪 Kleve 6.8%🇯🇵 Otsu 6.8%🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 6.8%🇷🇺 Ryazan 6.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 32.4% 102 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Braga 32.5%🇫🇷 Nice 32.5%🇪🇸 A Coruña 32.4%🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 32.4%Grenoble🇨🇭 Schaffhausen 32.4%🇮🇹 Bologna 32.1%🇮🇹 Livorno 32%🇮🇹 Genoa 31.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.5% 226 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Barreiro 0.5%🇮🇹 Bergamo 0.5%🇩🇪 Bonn 0.5%🇵🇹 Braga 0.5%Grenoble🇩🇪 Göppingen 0.5%🇩🇪 Gütersloh 0.5%🇩🇪 Hagen 0.5%🇩🇪 Koblenz 0.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 61.1% 314 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Valdemoro 61.5%🇭🇷 Zagreb 61.4%🇵🇾 Ciudad del Este 61.3%🇮🇳 Kozhikode 61.3%Grenoble🇫🇷 Chambéry 61%🇧🇪 Leuven 61%🇮🇹 Forlì 60.9%🇵🇱 Gdansk 60.9%

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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