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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 48k · 234 venues mapped

Les Sables-d'Olonne

Where Les Sables-d'Olonne places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 167 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 La Rochelle 61 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Bilbao 📖 371 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 & drink234 places mapped
11:00–22:30
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13%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
20%
take a midday break
Shops & errands77 places mapped
08:45–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
77%
open on Sundays
66h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
6%
open 24/7
Services62 places mapped
09:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
34h
open per week
70%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
138
umbrella days a year
34.7 m
of rain since 1981
28
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
375.5 km
to Chaine des Puys
1
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:23
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.8 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,557
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLes Sables-d'Olonne RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 13.3% 167 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Bern 13.3%🇪🇸 Cartagena 13.3%🇦🇷 Cipolletti 13.3%🇭🇷 Dubrovnik 13.3%Les Sables-d'Olonne🇺🇸 Louisville 13.3%🇫🇷 Montbéliard 13.3%🇯🇵 Narita 13.3%🇺🇸 Ocala 13.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kobe 63 h🇫🇷 Le Havre 63 h🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 63 h🇮🇹 Lecco 63 hLes Sables-d'Olonne🇪🇸 León 63 h🇬🇧 Lincoln 63 h🇪🇸 Marbella 63 h🇹🇼 Miaoli 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 0% 468 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Heemskerk 0%🇵🇪 Huancayo 0%🇯🇵 Iizuka 0%🇮🇳 Indore 0%Les Sables-d'Olonne🇧🇷 Macapá 0%🇺🇾 Maldonado 0%🇨🇴 Manizales 0%🇰🇷 Mokpo 0%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 20% 204 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Vilanova i la Geltrú 20.2%🇧🇷 Blumenau 20.1%🇮🇹 Acireale 20%🇪🇸 Dos Hermanas 20%Les Sables-d'Olonne🇺🇾 Maldonado 20%🇮🇹 Messina 20%🇯🇵 Okayama 19.7%🇮🇹 Pistoia 19.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Lecco 0%🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 0%🇳🇱 Leiden 0%🇫🇷 Lens 0%Les Sables-d'Olonne🇧🇪 Leuven 0%🇬🇧 Llandudno 0%🇨🇭 Lugano 0%🇪🇸 Lugo 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 77.1% 201 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Rome 77.4%🇲🇽 Guadalajara 77.3%🇧🇷 Jaraguá do Sul 77.3%🇮🇹 Florence 77.1%Les Sables-d'Olonne🇬🇦 Libreville 77.1%🇫🇷 Lille 77.1%🇨🇿 Pilsen 77.1%🇷🇴 Arad 76.9%

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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