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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
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The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 220k · 1,423 venues mapped

Northampton

Where Northampton 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 28 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 25 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 97 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,423 places mapped
11:00–23:00
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5%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
10%
open 24/7
Shops & errands560 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
Culture310 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
80%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
Services180 places mapped
08:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
41%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
144
umbrella days a year
32.3 m
of rain since 1981
18
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
585.9 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:53
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.8 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,534
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNorthampton RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.3% 247 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Hua Hin 5.3%🇺🇦 Kyiv 5.3%🇺🇸 Lynchburg 5.3%🇨🇴 Manizales 5.3%Northampton🇵🇱 Opole 5.3%🇯🇵 Otaru 5.3%🇬🇧 Swansea 5.3%🇭🇺 Szombathely 5.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 78.5 h 104 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Toronto 79 h🇺🇸 Washington 79 h🇺🇸 Athens 78.9 h🇺🇸 Medford 78.8 hNorthampton🇮🇹 San Giuseppe Vesuviano 78.5 h🇺🇸 Peabody 78.4 h🇮🇱 Netanya 78.2 h🇪🇸 A Coruña 78 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.4% 378 of 1,878 🇮🇷 Isfahan 9.4%🇬🇧 Lancaster 9.4%🇫🇷 Lorient 9.4%🇮🇳 Lucknow 9.4%Northampton🇯🇵 Osaka 9.4%🇺🇦 Zhytomyr 9.4%🇨🇺 Cienfuegos 9.3%🇭🇷 Dubrovnik 9.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 11.7% 273 of 1,878 🇲🇺 Port Louis 11.8%🇧🇿 San Pedro 11.8%🇪🇸 Tarifa 11.8%🇯🇵 Kawagoe 11.7%Northampton🇩🇪 Dresden 11.6%🇩🇪 Reinbek 11.5%🇵🇹 Amora 11.4%🇩🇪 Erfurt 11.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 9.9% 132 of 1,878 🇩🇿 Tizi Ouzou 10%🇪🇨 Tulcán 10%🇨🇳 Wuhan 10%🇯🇵 Koriyama 9.9%Northampton🇻🇳 Huế 9.8%🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 9.8%🇿🇲 Lusaka 9.8%🇻🇳 Ninh Bình 9.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.1% 28 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Fargo 97.1%🇯🇵 Gamagori 97.1%🇷🇺 Gelendzhik 97.1%🇺🇸 Hamilton 97.1%Northampton🇺🇸 Spokane 97.1%🇯🇵 Tanabe 97.1%🇳🇵 Bharatpur 97%🇺🇸 Brandon 97%

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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