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The weather6
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 64k · 1,345 venues mapped

Loughborough

Where Loughborough 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 29 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Leicester 15 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 158 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 & drink1,345 places mapped
10:00–22:00
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5%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
61h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
Shops & errands410 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
102h
open per week
Culture240 places mapped
09:30–17:00
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0%
open past midnight
29%
open on Sundays
27h
open per week
Services154 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
10%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
158
umbrella days a year
35.1 m
of rain since 1981
5
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
627.4 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:51
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.9 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,557
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLoughborough RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.4% 246 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Campinas 5.4%🇫🇷 Colmar 5.4%🇹🇭 Ko Samui 5.4%🇩🇪 Landshut 5.4%Loughborough🇬🇧 Preston 5.4%🇩🇪 Schweinfurt 5.4%🇧🇪 Temse 5.4%🇧🇷 Arujá 5.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 61 h 177 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Chesterfield 61 h🇬🇧 Inverness 61 h🇨🇦 Kelowna 61 h🇸🇪 Linköping 61 hLoughborough🇸🇪 Malmo 61 h🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 61 h🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 61 h🇨🇭 Solothurn 61 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 12.8% 344 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Le Mans 12.9%🇵🇭 Manila 12.9%🇷🇺 Yoshkar-Ola 12.9%🇯🇵 Fukushima 12.8%Loughborough🇮🇳 Mumbai 12.8%🇮🇷 Yazd 12.8%🇫🇷 Chartres 12.7%🇯🇵 Fuji 12.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 6.7% 317 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Akashi 6.7%🇨🇴 Bucaramanga 6.7%🇨🇺 Ciego de Ávila 6.7%🇨🇱 La Serena 6.7%Loughborough🇯🇵 Mito 6.7%🇳🇪 Niamey 6.7%🇬🇧 Peterborough 6.7%🇬🇧 Stafford 6.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.3% 218 of 1,878 🇱🇹 Klaipėda 1.3%🇸🇰 Košice 1.3%🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 1.3%🇺🇸 Levittown 1.3%Loughborough🇩🇪 Lüdenscheid 1.3%🇬🇧 Margate 1.3%🇸🇪 Norrköping 1.3%🇨🇭 Olten 1.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97% 29 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Brandon 97%🇷🇺 Cherepovets 97%🇺🇦 Dnipro 97%🇺🇸 Indianapolis 97%Loughborough🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 97%🇰🇿 Petropavl 97%🇺🇸 Simi Valley 97%🇸🇬 Singapore 97%

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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