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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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🇨🇦 Canada · metro 118k · 487 venues mapped

Guelph

Where Guelph 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 125 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Cambridge 21 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 71 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink487 places mapped
10:30–22:00
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9%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
74h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Shops & errands135 places mapped
08:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
86h
open per week
10%
open 24/7
Services82 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
41%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
9%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
5
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
139
umbrella days a year
32.8 m
of rain since 1981
1,085
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2257.9 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:48
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,106
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureGuelph RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.3% 207 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Albany 9.3%🇪🇸 Almeria 9.3%🇦🇹 Dornbirn 9.3%🇺🇸 Durham 9.3%Guelph🇨🇿 Jihlava 9.3%🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 9.3%🇷🇺 Obninsk 9.3%🇨🇿 Ostrava 9.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 74 h 125 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Maidenhead 74.2 h🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen 74.2 h🇪🇸 Sant Boi de Llobregat 74.2 h🇬🇧 East Kilbride 74 hGuelph🇺🇸 Logan 74 h🇪🇨 Manta 74 h🇧🇷 Ponta Porã 74 h🇺🇸 San Clemente 74 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 17.1% 301 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Barreiro 17.2%🇨🇿 Olomouc 17.2%🇺🇸 Charlottesville 17.1%🇦🇹 Graz 17.1%Guelph🇰🇷 Jeonju 17.1%🇮🇶 Karbala 17.1%🇨🇦 Maple Ridge 17.1%🇲🇽 Morelia 17.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.1% 363 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Aberdeen 2.1%🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 2.1%🇳🇱 Dordrecht 2.1%🇺🇸 Fargo 2.1%Guelph🇺🇸 Olathe 2.1%🇩🇪 Potsdam 2.1%🇮🇩 Surakarta 2.1%🇲🇦 Tangier 2.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.4% 167 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 6.5%🇺🇸 Amarillo 6.4%🇨🇴 Barranquilla 6.4%🇹🇯 Dushanbe 6.4%Guelph🇨🇴 Ibagué 6.4%🇯🇵 Kisarazu 6.4%🇺🇸 North Richland Hills 6.4%🇮🇹 Salerno 6.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 84.6% 139 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Salisbury 85%🇧🇴 Tarija 84.8%🇳🇱 Alkmaar 84.7%🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte 84.7%Guelph🇱🇧 Beirut 84.5%🇮🇹 Naples 84.5%🇦🇺 Canberra 84.4%🇺🇸 Charleston 84.2%

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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