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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 72k · 771 venues mapped

Lorient

Where Lorient 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 44 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Vannes 47 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 441 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 & drink771 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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11%
open past midnight
69%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
41%
take a midday break
Shops & errands377 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
63%
open on Sundays
66h
open per week
25%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Services218 places mapped
08:45–18:00
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1%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
73%
take a midday break
Culture194 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
22%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
28%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
137
umbrella days a year
34 m
of rain since 1981
19
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
530.6 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:24
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,688
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLorient RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.1% 189 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Fresno 11.1%🇨🇳 Harbin 11.1%🇺🇸 Hartford 11.1%🇺🇸 Killeen 11.1%Lorient🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 11.1%🇧🇪 Namur 11.1%🇺🇸 San Antonio 11.1%🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 11.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 40 h 260 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Arles 40.5 h🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 40.5 h🇧🇷 Araraquara 40 h🇧🇷 Boa Vista 40 hLorient🇧🇪 Roeselare 40 h🇧🇷 Londrina 38.5 h🇯🇵 Beppu 38 h🇳🇨 Nouméa 37.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.4% 378 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Dnipro 9.4%🇹🇷 Gölcük 9.4%🇮🇷 Isfahan 9.4%🇬🇧 Lancaster 9.4%Lorient🇮🇳 Lucknow 9.4%🇬🇧 Northampton 9.4%🇯🇵 Osaka 9.4%🇺🇦 Zhytomyr 9.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 41.1% 44 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Kortrijk 41.6%🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 41.4%🇮🇹 Pordenone 41.3%🇮🇹 Como 41.2%Lorient🇫🇷 Agde 40.9%🇫🇷 Albi 40.9%🇨🇭 Neuchâtel 40.9%🇪🇸 Albacete 40.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.7% 214 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Forlì 1.7%🇯🇵 Komatsu 1.7%🇺🇸 Las Cruces 1.7%🇬🇧 Littlehampton 1.7%Lorient🇨🇦 Nanaimo 1.7%🇵🇹 Porto 1.7%🇺🇸 Redlands 1.7%🇧🇷 Sorocaba 1.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 63.1% 300 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 63.3%🇮🇹 Alessandria 63.2%🇨🇿 Jihlava 63.2%🇧🇷 João Pessoa 63.2%Lorient🇳🇱 Leiden 63%🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 63%🇧🇷 Nova Lima 62.9%🇷🇴 Târgu Mureș 62.9%

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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