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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
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The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 527k · 1,590 venues mapped

Leicester

Where Leicester places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 32 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Loughborough 15 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 143 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,590 places mapped
10:00–22:00
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7%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands687 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Culture333 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
40%
open on Sundays
47h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Services253 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
20%
open on Sundays
47h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
150
umbrella days a year
33.9 m
of rain since 1981
11
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
617.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:52
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.9 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,552
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLeicester RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.6% 234 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Dumaguete 6.6%🇲🇾 George Town 6.6%🇳🇱 Heerlen 6.6%🇮🇹 Imola 6.6%Leicester🇺🇸 Medford 6.6%🇨🇦 Nanaimo 6.6%🇺🇦 Odesa 6.6%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 6.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 72 h 133 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Fukuoka 72 h🇵🇱 Gniezno 72 h🇸🇪 Gävle 72 h🇯🇲 Kingston 72 hLeicester🇬🇦 Libreville 72 h🇨🇭 Locarno 72 h🇵🇱 Lodz 72 h🇧🇷 Manaus 72 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 16.6% 306 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Takaoka 16.7%🇨🇦 Vancouver 16.7%🇮🇳 Varanasi 16.7%🇲🇾 Johor Bahru 16.6%Leicester🇨🇾 Larnaca 16.5%🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 16.5%🇪🇸 Ferrol 16.4%🇨🇿 Ostrava 16.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.9% 355 of 1,878 🇩🇰 Copenhagen 2.9%🇨🇳 Dalian 2.9%🇿🇦 Durban 2.9%🇨🇦 Hamilton 2.9%Leicester🇨🇦 London 2.9%🇬🇧 Manchester 2.9%🇬🇧 Mansfield 2.9%🇨🇦 Montreal 2.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.1% 190 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Warrington 4.2%🇨🇷 Cartago 4.1%🇷🇺 Gelendzhik 4.1%🇬🇧 Harrogate 4.1%Leicester🇺🇸 New Britain 4.1%🇸🇰 Nitra 4.1%🇹🇭 Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya 4.1%🇧🇷 Salvador 4.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.7% 32 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Springfield 96.8%🇺🇸 Waukegan 96.8%🇬🇧 Bedford 96.7%🇮🇩 Denpasar 96.7%Leicester🇮🇷 Mashhad 96.7%🇵🇭 Nasugbu 96.7%🇺🇸 Omaha 96.7%🇲🇾 Rawang 96.7%

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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