athens.taipei The Atlas of City Experiences
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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🇧🇪 Belgium · metro 63k · 903 venues mapped

Namur

Where Namur 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 100 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇪 Charleroi 31 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 56 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Namur 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 & drink903 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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11%
open past midnight
58%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
33%
take a midday break
Shops & errands447 places mapped
08:00–19:00
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1%
open past midnight
66%
open on Sundays
69h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Culture287 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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4%
open past midnight
44%
open on Sundays
25h
open per week
Services203 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
3%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
10%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
156
umbrella days a year
38.5 m
of rain since 1981
106
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
144.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:39
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
14,120
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNamur RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.1% 189 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Hartford 11.1%🇺🇸 Killeen 11.1%🇫🇷 Lorient 11.1%🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 11.1%Namur🇺🇸 San Antonio 11.1%🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 11.1%🇺🇸 Sarasota 11.1%🇺🇸 Savannah 11.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 46 h 242 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Almuñécar 46 h🇫🇷 Annecy 46 h🇫🇷 Caen 46 h🇳🇱 Groningen 46 hNamur🇧🇪 Ostend 46 h🇮🇹 Imperia 45.8 h🇪🇸 Albacete 45.5 h🇫🇷 Chalon-sur-Saône 45.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.1% 421 of 1,878 🇳🇴 Drammen 5.1%🇩🇪 Heidelberg 5.1%🇩🇪 Kiel 5.1%🇫🇷 Lille 5.1%Namur🇩🇪 Neuwied 5.1%🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 5.1%🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 5%🇩🇪 Essen 5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 32.6% 100 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Mestre 33%🇪🇸 Valladolid 33%🇫🇷 Vannes 33%🇮🇹 Parma 32.7%Namur🇵🇹 Braga 32.5%🇫🇷 Nice 32.5%🇪🇸 A Coruña 32.4%🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 32.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Málaga 0%🇲🇽 Mérida 0%🇯🇵 Nagasaki 0%🇹🇭 Nakhon Ratchasima 0%Namur🇨🇳 Nanchang 0%🇫🇷 Nancy 0%🇳🇿 Napier 0%🇧🇸 Nassau 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 66.3% 276 of 1,704 🇸🇰 Košice 66.7%🇮🇹 Lecce 66.7%🇦🇷 San Juan 66.7%🇮🇹 Taranto 66.7%Namur🇫🇷 Nancy 66.3%🇫🇷 Pau 66.2%🇵🇹 Coimbra 66.1%🇫🇷 Montauban 65.9%

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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