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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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🇪🇸 Spain · metro 146k · 498 venues mapped

León

Where León 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 72 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Gijón 104 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Bilbao 📖 228 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 & drink498 places mapped
10:30–23:00
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12%
open past midnight
78%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
37%
take a midday break
Shops & errands194 places mapped
09:00–21:30
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3%
open past midnight
35%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
13%
take a midday break
Services134 places mapped
09:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
9%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
29%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
120
umbrella days a year
24.8 m
of rain since 1981
1,295
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
434.8 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:52
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.3 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,806
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLeón RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.3% 177 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Bologna 12.3%🇦🇹 Bregenz 12.3%🇷🇺 Kemerovo 12.3%🇺🇸 Laurel 12.3%León🇮🇹 Mestre 12.3%🇺🇸 Montgomery 12.3%🇨🇦 Winnipeg 12.3%🇷🇺 Yeysk 12.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Le Havre 63 h🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 63 h🇮🇹 Lecco 63 h🇫🇷 Les Sables-d'Olonne 63 hLeón🇬🇧 Lincoln 63 h🇪🇸 Marbella 63 h🇹🇼 Miaoli 63 h🇺🇾 Montevideo 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 16.9% 303 of 1,878 🇭🇺 Szombathely 17%🇮🇩 Yogyakarta 17%🇮🇹 Cuneo 16.9%🇷🇸 Kragujevac 16.9%León🇮🇷 Mashhad 16.9%🇮🇪 Dublin 16.8%🇬🇧 Harlow 16.8%🇮🇹 Venice 16.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 36.9% 72 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 37.3%🇫🇷 Lens 37.3%🇫🇷 Angoulême 37.2%🇧🇪 Frameries 37%León🇫🇷 Chambéry 36.6%🇪🇸 San Fernando 36.4%🇪🇸 Ferrol 36.2%🇮🇹 Udine 36.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.5% 216 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Faro 1.5%🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 1.5%🇳🇱 Helmond 1.5%🇬🇧 Inverness 1.5%León🇬🇧 London 1.5%🇦🇷 Mar del Plata 1.5%🇨🇿 Pilsen 1.5%🇵🇱 Szczecin 1.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 34.9% 426 of 1,704 🇸🇮 Maribor 35.9%🇪🇸 Salamanca 35.9%🇪🇸 Vigo 35.3%🇮🇳 Kannur 34.9%León🇪🇸 Málaga 34.7%🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 34.7%🇨🇭 Biel/Bienne 34.6%🇩🇪 Hagen 34.5%

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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