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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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Kehl

Where Kehl 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 63 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Strasbourg 5 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇭 Zurich 📖 145 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Kehl 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 & drink900 places mapped
11:30–22:22
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16%
open past midnight
62%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
38%
take a midday break
Shops & errands251 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
45%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
Services141 places mapped
08:38–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
37h
open per week
52%
take a midday break
Culture115 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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2%
open past midnight
54%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week
7%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
165
umbrella days a year
44.2 m
of rain since 1981
278
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
190.8 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
1.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:36
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.1 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,877
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKehl RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 16.3% 137 of 1,878 🇦🇴 Luanda 16.4%🇯🇵 Tsuruoka 16.4%🇷🇺 Vladimir 16.4%🇰🇿 Almaty 16.3%Kehl🇧🇷 Ponta Porã 16.3%🇨🇺 Santa Clara 16.3%🇺🇸 Willoughby 16.3%🇪🇸 Girona 16.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 52 h 216 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Royan 52.5 h🇩🇪 Neuwied 52.2 h🇮🇹 Vicenza 52.2 h🇬🇧 Colchester 52 hKehl🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 52 h🇩🇪 Osnabrück 52 h🇻🇪 San Cristobal 52 h🇯🇵 Yokote 51.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.1% 411 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 6.2%🇵🇱 Świdnica 6.2%🇷🇺 Elektrostal 6.1%🇮🇹 Follonica 6.1%Kehl🇧🇷 Sao Jose dos Campos 6.1%🇵🇱 Tychy 6.1%🇵🇱 Zielona Góra 6.1%🇨🇿 Zlín 6.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 38.3% 63 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Lyon 38.8%🇮🇹 Cremona 38.7%🇮🇹 Perugia 38.5%🇮🇹 Brescia 38.4%Kehl🇫🇷 Chartres 38.2%🇫🇷 Rennes 37.9%🇮🇹 Modena 37.7%🇮🇹 Lecco 37.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.7% 224 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Darmstadt 0.7%🇺🇸 Des Moines 0.7%🇺🇸 Grand Rapids 0.7%🇺🇸 Joliet 0.7%Kehl🇫🇷 Poissy 0.7%🇮🇹 Rimini 0.7%🇩🇪 Rosenheim 0.7%🇦🇹 Salzburg 0.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 44.6% 394 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Torrevieja 45.3%🇹🇿 Mwanza 45%🇫🇷 Colmar 44.6%🇩🇪 Flensburg 44.6%Kehl🇸🇰 Prievidza 44.4%🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 44.2%🇮🇹 Asti 43.8%🇨🇭 Montreux 43.5%

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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