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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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🇫🇷 France · metro 472k · 2,298 venues mapped

Nantes

Where Nantes 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 56 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 51 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 342 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit 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 & drink2,298 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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12%
open past midnight
48%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week
39%
take a midday break
Shops & errands985 places mapped
08:00–19:45
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1%
open past midnight
56%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
20%
take a midday break
Services608 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
65%
take a midday break
Culture606 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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3%
open past midnight
26%
open on Sundays
22h
open per week
46%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
134
umbrella days a year
34.7 m
of rain since 1981
325
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
381.7 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:19
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.9 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,547
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNantes RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.2% 178 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Yeysk 12.3%🇫🇷 Amiens 12.2%🇰🇷 Daegu 12.2%🇺🇸 Murfreesboro 12.2%Nantes🇯🇵 Oita 12.2%🇧🇬 Plovdiv 12.2%🇷🇺 Tula 12.2%🇫🇷 Annecy 12.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 44 h 249 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Agen 44.8 h🇫🇷 Nancy 44.8 h🇧🇷 Maceió 44.6 h🇧🇷 João Pessoa 44 hNantes🇫🇷 Auxerre 43.8 h🇯🇵 Iida 43.8 h🇫🇷 Chambéry 43.5 h🇫🇷 Dijon 43.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.5% 417 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Wenjiang 5.6%🇩🇪 Bremen 5.5%🇩🇪 Erfurt 5.5%🇩🇪 Leipzig 5.5%Nantes🇹🇭 Pattaya 5.5%🇷🇺 Stavropol 5.5%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 5.5%🇳🇱 Amsterdam 5.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 39.1% 56 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Angers 39.6%🇮🇹 Verona 39.4%🇫🇷 Annecy 39.2%🇧🇪 La Louvière 39.1%Nantes🇫🇷 Caen 39%🇫🇷 Bordeaux 38.9%🇫🇷 Béziers 38.9%🇯🇵 Iida 38.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.2% 229 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Amsterdam 0.2%🇮🇹 Bologna 0.2%🇫🇷 Lyon 0.2%🇸🇪 Malmo 0.2%Nantes🇫🇷 Paris 0.2%🇩🇪 Ravensburg 0.2%🇫🇷 Rouen 0.2%🇸🇪 Stockholm 0.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 55.9% 341 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 56.4%🇧🇪 Charleroi 56.1%🇫🇷 Poitiers 56.1%🇧🇷 Teresina 56.1%Nantes🇭🇺 Szombathely 55.6%🇸🇰 Žilina 55.3%🇫🇷 La Rochelle 55.2%🇫🇷 Chalon-sur-Saône 55.1%

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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