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The Anti-Awards

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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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 61k · 749 venues mapped

Marl

Where Marl places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 197 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Essen 23 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 114 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Marl does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink749 places mapped
11:30–22:00
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
16%
take a midday break
Shops & errands456 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
28%
open on Sundays
81h
open per week
Services200 places mapped
08:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
11%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
41%
take a midday break
Culture115 places mapped
09:00–18:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
40%
open on Sundays
20h
open per week
13%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
162
umbrella days a year
40.4 m
of rain since 1981
148
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
166.2 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:24
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.7 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,984
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMarl RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.7% 273 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Elbląg 2.7%🇬🇹 Guatemala City 2.7%🇯🇵 Ise 2.7%🇹🇬 Lomé 2.7%Marl🇷🇺 Maykop 2.7%🇬🇧 Newport 2.7%🇵🇱 Zakopane 2.7%🇬🇧 Bognor Regis 2.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 56 h 197 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Langwarrin 56 h🇩🇪 Magdeburg 56 h🇺🇾 Maldonado 56 h🇨🇴 Manizales 56 hMarl🇯🇵 Marugame 56 h🇦🇺 Melbourne 56 h🇮🇹 Mestre 56 h🇪🇸 Motril 56 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.4% 398 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Ingolstadt 7.4%🇨🇾 Kyrenia 7.4%🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 7.4%🇫🇷 Lens 7.4%Marl🇦🇹 Salzburg 7.4%🇧🇬 Stara Zagora 7.4%🇷🇺 Azov 7.3%🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 7.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 15.5% 240 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Krefeld 15.7%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 15.7%🇦🇺 Bendigo 15.6%🇰🇷 Gwangju 15.5%Marl🇪🇸 Bilbao 15.3%🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 15.3%🇵🇹 Setúbal 15.3%🇨🇴 Cali 15.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1% 221 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Linköping 1%🇮🇹 Livorno 1%🇺🇸 Logan 1%🇪🇸 Madrid 1%Marl🇨🇳 Nanjing 1%🇵🇱 Pabianice 1%🇫🇷 Pau 1%🇩🇪 Pforzheim 1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 28.1% 459 of 1,704 🇵🇱 Przemyśl 28.8%🇩🇪 Bonn 28.5%🇩🇪 Dusseldorf 28.4%🇩🇪 Trier 28.4%Marl🇬🇭 Accra 27.8%🇩🇪 Lüneburg 27.7%🇩🇪 Fulda 27.6%🇦🇹 Salzburg 27.5%

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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