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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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🇧🇪 Belgium · metro 86k · 1,252 venues mapped

La Louvière

Where La Louvière 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 56 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇪 Charleroi 20 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 42 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 & drink1,252 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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2%
open past midnight
66%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
39%
take a midday break
Shops & errands716 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
60%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
Services335 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
16%
take a midday break
Culture249 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
29%
open on Sundays
23h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
154
umbrella days a year
36.5 m
of rain since 1981
75
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
192.2 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:42
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
14,168
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLa Louvière RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.2% 278 of 1,878 🇭🇺 Pécs 2.3%🇧🇷 Araraquara 2.2%🇦🇱 Elbasan 2.2%🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 2.2%La Louvière🇹🇼 Miaoli 2.2%🇭🇺 Székesfehérvár 2.2%🇬🇧 Blantyre 2.1%🇨🇿 Hradec Králové 2.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 42 h 256 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Criciúma 42 h🇧🇷 Cuiabá 42 h🇧🇷 Florianópolis 42 h🇧🇪 Kortrijk 42 hLa Louvière🇪🇸 Mataró 42 h🇧🇷 Natal 42 h🇦🇷 Resistencia 42 h🇧🇷 Santa Maria 42 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.8% 414 of 1,878 🇧🇹 Thimphu 5.9%🇪🇸 Torrevieja 5.9%🇫🇷 Arles 5.8%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 5.8%La Louvière🇧🇪 Liège 5.8%🇫🇷 Metz 5.8%🇫🇮 Oulu 5.8%🇫🇷 Poitiers 5.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 39.1% 56 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Strasbourg 40.1%🇫🇷 Angers 39.6%🇮🇹 Verona 39.4%🇫🇷 Annecy 39.2%La Louvière🇫🇷 Nantes 39.1%🇫🇷 Caen 39%🇫🇷 Bordeaux 38.9%🇫🇷 Béziers 38.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.4% 217 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Hakodate 1.4%🇩🇪 Heilbronn 1.4%🇳🇱 Hoofddorp 1.4%🇩🇪 Ingolstadt 1.4%La Louvière🇺🇸 Manhattan 1.4%🇨🇿 Olomouc 1.4%🇺🇸 Olympia 1.4%🇺🇸 Piscataway 1.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 59.6% 323 of 1,704 🇧🇿 San Pedro 60%🇮🇹 Pescara 59.9%🇫🇷 Brest 59.7%🇧🇪 Verviers 59.7%La Louvière🇳🇱 Arnhem 59.4%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 59.4%🇧🇪 Roeselare 59.4%🇫🇷 Valence 59.4%

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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