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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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🇺🇸 United States · metro 622k · 1,922 venues mapped

Norfolk

Where Norfolk 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 27 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Newport News 20 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 807 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Norfolk 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 & drink1,922 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
15%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands754 places mapped
06:00–24:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
126h
open per week
39%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
84
muggy days a year
14
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
135
umbrella days a year
53.8 m
of rain since 1981
1,619
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2490.4 km
to Saba
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:53
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.7 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,776
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNorfolk RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.7% 153 of 1,878 🇧🇬 Stara Zagora 14.8%🇷🇺 Tomsk 14.8%🇺🇸 Bloomington 14.7%🇳🇱 Hoorn 14.7%Norfolk🇵🇹 Faro 14.6%🇮🇳 Mumbai 14.6%🇨🇦 Quebec 14.6%🇷🇸 Belgrade 14.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Missoula 91 h🇺🇸 Modesto 91 h🇺🇸 Nashville 91 h🇹🇷 Nevşehir 91 hNorfolk🇷🇺 Novorossiysk 91 h🇷🇺 Obninsk 91 h🇺🇦 Odesa 91 h🇺🇸 Odessa 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 34.8% 141 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Ascoli Piceno 34.9%🇺🇸 Hazel Park 34.9%🇺🇸 Springfield 34.9%🇺🇸 Flagstaff 34.8%Norfolk🇺🇸 Kenosha 34.7%🇺🇸 Little Rock 34.7%🇸🇻 San Salvador 34.7%🇺🇸 Levittown 34.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.4% 370 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Leiden 1.4%🇮🇩 Medan 1.4%🇺🇸 Miami 1.4%🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 1.4%Norfolk🇺🇸 North Richland Hills 1.4%🇷🇺 Odintsovo 1.4%🇨🇿 Olomouc 1.4%🇺🇸 Omaha 1.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.3% 198 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Imola 3.3%🇺🇦 Ivano-Frankivsk 3.3%🇪🇸 Marbella 3.3%🇬🇧 Newbury 3.3%Norfolk🇮🇹 Pistoia 3.3%🇺🇸 Reno 3.3%🇭🇷 Rijeka 3.3%🇺🇸 Spring Valley 3.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.2% 27 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Boston 97.2%🇯🇵 Hiroshima 97.2%🇺🇸 Jacksonville 97.2%🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 97.2%Norfolk🇯🇵 Okayama 97.2%🇺🇸 Syracuse 97.2%🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 97.1%🇪🇬 Cairo 97.1%

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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