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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
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The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 119k · 886 venues mapped

Newport

Where Newport places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 134 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Cardiff 17 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 199 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Newport 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 & drink886 places mapped
11:30–22:30
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3%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
Shops & errands333 places mapped
07:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
93h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Culture191 places mapped
09:15–17:00
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0%
open past midnight
33%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
Services122 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
15%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
179
umbrella days a year
43.4 m
of rain since 1981
6
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
708.1 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:05
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.7 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,678
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNewport RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.7% 273 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Ise 2.7%🇹🇬 Lomé 2.7%🇩🇪 Marl 2.7%🇷🇺 Maykop 2.7%Newport🇵🇱 Zakopane 2.7%🇬🇧 Bognor Regis 2.6%🇸🇰 Bratislava 2.6%🇯🇵 Fukushima 2.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 56 h 197 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Melbourne 56 h🇮🇹 Mestre 56 h🇪🇸 Motril 56 h🇲🇽 Mérida 56 hNewport🇦🇺 Point Cook 56 h🇲🇺 Port Louis 56 h🇦🇷 Rosario 56 h🇮🇹 Rovereto 56 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.2% 390 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Brest 8.2%🇧🇷 Campinas 8.2%🇬🇧 Cardiff 8.2%🇬🇧 Elland 8.2%Newport🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte 8.1%🇬🇧 Bridgend 8.1%🇯🇵 Ise 8.1%🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg 8.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 8.8% 296 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Arujá 8.8%🇻🇳 Cần Thơ 8.8%🇬🇧 Inverness 8.8%🇮🇹 Lecce 8.8%Newport🇪🇸 Segovia 8.8%🇪🇸 Benidorm 8.7%🇧🇸 Nassau 8.7%🇦🇺 Newcastle 8.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.8% 223 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Miri 0.8%🇲🇨 Monaco 0.8%🇨🇭 Montreux 0.8%🇺🇸 New Hope 0.8%Newport🇩🇪 Passau 0.8%🇩🇪 Remscheid 0.8%🇷🇴 Sibiu 0.8%🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 0.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 85.3% 134 of 1,704 🇰🇬 Osh 85.7%🇺🇦 Kherson 85.5%🇷🇴 Brasov 85.4%🇳🇱 Bussum 85.3%Newport🇨🇱 Temuco 85.3%🇨🇦 Barrie 85.2%🇹🇯 Dushanbe 85.2%🇵🇹 Faro 85.2%

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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