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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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 54k · 725 venues mapped

Minden

Where Minden 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 224 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Bielefeld 39 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 254 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink725 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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3%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
16%
take a midday break
Shops & errands428 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
27%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
Services217 places mapped
08:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
7%
open on Sundays
47h
open per week
30%
take a midday break
Culture210 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
39%
open on Sundays
23h
open per week
22%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
151
umbrella days a year
33.4 m
of rain since 1981
132
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
276 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:13
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.8 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,871
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMinden RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.2% 268 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Guadalajara 3.2%🇩🇪 Leipzig 3.2%🇩🇪 Magdeburg 3.2%🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 3.2%Minden🇩🇪 Oldenburg 3.2%🇸🇰 Prešov 3.2%🇮🇷 Tehran 3.2%🇭🇺 Érd 3.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 50 h 224 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 50 h🇩🇪 Heilbronn 50 h🇳🇱 Hilversum 50 h🇧🇪 Mechelen 50 hMinden🇯🇵 Naha 50 h🇳🇱 Oss 50 h🇩🇪 Pforzheim 50 h🇧🇷 Sorocaba 50 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 3.2% 440 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Sumy 3.3%🇪🇬 Alexandria 3.2%🇯🇵 Fujikawaguchiko 3.2%🇧🇷 João Pessoa 3.2%Minden🇵🇱 Koszalin 3.1%🇺🇦 Lviv 3.1%🇯🇵 Matsumoto 3.1%🇨🇦 Milton 3.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 16.3% 234 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Bielefeld 16.3%🇯🇵 Himeji 16.3%🇹🇼 Kaohsiung 16.3%🇨🇭 Locarno 16.3%Minden🇪🇸 Sant Boi de Llobregat 16.3%🇹🇼 Taipei 16.3%🇵🇹 Almada 16.2%🇯🇵 Hakodate 15.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Metz 0%🇲🇽 Mexicali 0%🇹🇼 Miaoli 0%🇨🇦 Milton 0%Minden🇭🇺 Miskolc 0%🇯🇵 Miyazaki 0%🇮🇹 Modena 0%🇰🇷 Mokpo 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 26.9% 468 of 1,704 🇨🇭 Wettingen 27.2%🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 27.1%🇩🇪 Freilassing 27%🇩🇪 Berlin 26.9%Minden🇪🇸 Tarifa 26.7%🇬🇷 Athens 26.6%🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 26.6%🇩🇪 Ravensburg 26.6%

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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