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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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Kassel

Where Kassel 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 🇩🇪 Göttingen 39 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 279 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Kassel 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 & drink2,279 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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5%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
Shops & errands1,233 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
22%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Culture976 places mapped
10:30–18:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
46%
open on Sundays
16h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
Services506 places mapped
08:30–18:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
7%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week
38%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
164
umbrella days a year
36.2 m
of rain since 1981
196
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
225.9 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:16
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.6 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,814
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKassel RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5% 250 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Eastleigh 5%🇬🇮 Gibraltar 5%🇩🇪 Hagen 5%🇨🇳 Hefei 5%Kassel🇹🇷 Nevşehir 5%🇺🇸 Portland 5%🇪🇨 Puyo 5%🇨🇺 Santiago de Cuba 5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 54 h 207 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Hastings 54 h🇩🇪 Heidelberg 54 h🇨🇴 Ibagué 54 h🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 54 hKassel🇩🇪 Krefeld 54 h🇬🇭 Kumasi 54 h🇧🇴 La Paz 54 h🇩🇪 Landshut 54 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6% 412 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Bayreuth 6%🇫🇷 Besançon 6%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 6%🇵🇰 Karachi 6%Kassel🇫🇷 La Rochelle 6%🇧🇪 Mechelen 6%🇩🇪 Ravensburg 6%🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 14.5% 249 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Torrevieja 14.7%🇵🇾 Asuncion 14.6%🇩🇪 Jena 14.6%🇯🇵 Hiroshima 14.5%Kassel🇯🇵 Numazu 14.5%🇩🇪 Aachen 14.4%🇧🇷 Aracaju 14.3%🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 14.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1% 221 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Girona 1%🇦🇺 Hobart 1%🇨🇿 Hradec Králové 1%🇫🇮 Joensuu 1%Kassel🇬🇧 Keighley 1%🇬🇧 Leeds 1%🇸🇪 Linköping 1%🇮🇹 Livorno 1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 21.6% 504 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Rosenheim 21.8%🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 21.8%🇩🇪 Reinbek 21.7%🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 21.7%Kassel🇩🇪 Hildesheim 21.4%🇦🇹 Vienna 21.3%🇩🇪 Würzburg 21.3%🇩🇪 Lüdenscheid 21.2%

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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