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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 5.7M · 11,598 venues mapped

Madrid

Where Madrid 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 56 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Madrid in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇪🇸 Salamanca 2 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Valencia 📖 302 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, 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 & drink11,598 places mapped
11:00–24:00
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27%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
23%
take a midday break
Shops & errands4,424 places mapped
09:00–21:30
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
81h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Services3,334 places mapped
09:00–20:30
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
26%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
20%
take a midday break
7%
open 24/7
Culture1,154 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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4%
open past midnight
54%
open on Sundays
62h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
82
umbrella days a year
20.6 m
of rain since 1981
3,291
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
174.1 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:52
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.1 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,616
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMadrid RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 27.2% 56 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Cordoba 27.9%🇮🇹 Brindisi 27.6%🇦🇪 Dubai 27.4%🇮🇹 Salerno 27.3%Madrid🇰🇷 Mokpo 26.7%🇺🇸 Muncie 26.3%🇮🇹 Viterbo 26.3%🇬🇪 Batumi 26.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Kunming 77 h🇺🇸 Livermore 77 h🇸🇮 Ljubljana 77 h🇿🇲 Lusaka 77 hMadrid🇲🇽 Mexicali 77 h🇰🇷 Mokpo 77 h🇺🇸 Mount Vernon 77 h🇯🇵 Nagoya 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 12.3% 349 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 12.4%🇫🇷 Nimes 12.4%🇵🇹 Coimbra 12.3%🇷🇴 Iași 12.3%Madrid🇬🇧 Pontefract 12.3%🇵🇹 Porto 12.3%🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 12.3%🇵🇱 Rybnik 12.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 22.9% 179 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Olten 23.1%🇪🇸 Talavera de la Reina 23.1%🇪🇸 Terrassa 23.1%🇨🇭 Bern 23%Madrid🇵🇹 Coimbra 22.8%🇫🇷 Ajaccio 22.7%🇧🇪 Leuven 22.7%🇪🇸 Dénia 22.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1% 221 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Leeds 1%🇸🇪 Linköping 1%🇮🇹 Livorno 1%🇺🇸 Logan 1%Madrid🇩🇪 Marl 1%🇨🇳 Nanjing 1%🇵🇱 Pabianice 1%🇫🇷 Pau 1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 71.8% 237 of 1,704 🇧🇷 Curitiba 72.1%🇧🇪 Ostend 72%🇳🇱 Tilburg 71.9%🇮🇹 Vigevano 71.9%Madrid🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 71.8%🇫🇷 Toulouse 71.7%🇫🇷 Nimes 71.6%🇮🇹 Bologna 71.4%

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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