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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 168k · 555 venues mapped

Le Havre

Where Le Havre 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 91 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Caen 48 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 178 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink555 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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16%
open past midnight
63%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
34%
take a midday break
Shops & errands323 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
23%
take a midday break
Services175 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
3%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
53%
take a midday break
Culture130 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
48%
open on Sundays
26h
open per week
17%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
148
umbrella days a year
36.5 m
of rain since 1981
8
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
465 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:02
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.3 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,447
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLe Havre RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 16.2% 138 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Ponta Porã 16.3%🇨🇺 Santa Clara 16.3%🇺🇸 Willoughby 16.3%🇪🇸 Girona 16.2%Le Havre🇳🇴 Trondheim 16.2%🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 16.1%🇮🇹 Cremona 16.1%🇫🇮 Helsinki 16.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kawagoe 63 h🇬🇧 Keighley 63 h🇹🇭 Khon Kaen 63 h🇯🇵 Kobe 63 hLe Havre🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 63 h🇮🇹 Lecco 63 h🇫🇷 Les Sables-d'Olonne 63 h🇪🇸 León 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.4% 338 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Bilbao 13.5%🇮🇷 Shiraz 13.5%🇬🇧 Bath 13.4%🇮🇩 Jakarta 13.4%Le Havre🇬🇧 Nottingham 13.4%🇬🇧 Swansea 13.4%🇯🇵 Asahikawa 13.3%🇬🇧 Bedford 13.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 34.1% 91 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 34.9%🇫🇷 Nimes 34.8%🇦🇹 Lustenau 34.6%🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 34.5%Le Havre🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 34.1%🇨🇭 Lausanne 33.7%🇫🇷 Tours 33.7%🇵🇹 Évora 33.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇮🇹 La Spezia 0%🇵🇹 Lagos 0%🇩🇪 Landshut 0%🇮🇹 Latina 0%Le Havre🇮🇹 Lecco 0%🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 0%🇳🇱 Leiden 0%🇫🇷 Lens 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 73.5% 224 of 1,704 🇦🇷 Rosario 74%🇭🇳 Tegucigalpa 73.9%🇫🇷 Montbéliard 73.7%🇳🇱 Geleen 73.5%Le Havre🇪🇸 Torrejón de Ardoz 73.5%🇨🇴 Medellín 73.4%🇪🇸 Castelldefels 73.3%🇭🇺 Nyíregyháza 73.3%

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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