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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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🇫🇷 France · metro 219k · 659 venues mapped

Orléans

Where Orléans 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 20 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Blois 55 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 111 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 & drink659 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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12%
open past midnight
54%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
46%
take a midday break
Shops & errands309 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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2%
open past midnight
66%
open on Sundays
69h
open per week
20%
take a midday break
Services231 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
3%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
65%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
129
umbrella days a year
30.2 m
of rain since 1981
437
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
249.2 km
to Chaine des Puys
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:02
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,298
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureOrléans RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.9% 181 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kofu 11.9%🇸🇮 Maribor 11.9%🇺🇸 Memphis 11.9%🇺🇸 New Haven 11.9%Orléans🇭🇺 Sopron 11.9%🇲🇽 Valladolid 11.9%🇧🇬 Varna 11.9%🇸🇾 Aleppo 11.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 45.5 h 244 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Hoorn 45.5 h🇬🇧 Lancaster 45.5 h🇫🇷 Lyon 45.5 h🇪🇸 Nerja 45.5 hOrléans🇫🇷 Bourges 45.2 h🇫🇷 Albi 45 h🇫🇷 Angers 45 h🇧🇪 Charleroi 45 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.9% 393 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 7.9%🇫🇷 Cergy 7.9%🇫🇷 Dijon 7.9%🇩🇪 Offenburg 7.9%Orléans🇲🇺 Port Louis 7.9%🇷🇺 Tyumen 7.9%🇫🇷 Valence 7.9%🇪🇸 Valladolid 7.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 45.6% 20 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Jaén 46.7%🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 46.4%🇦🇷 San Juan 46.2%🇫🇷 Valenciennes 45.8%Orléans🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 45.5%🇫🇷 Maurepas 45.4%🇫🇷 Creil 45%🇮🇹 Fano 44.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.6% 225 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Madison 0.6%🇩🇪 Mannheim 0.6%🇫🇷 Nimes 0.6%🇩🇪 Oldenburg 0.6%Orléans🇫🇷 Poitiers 0.6%🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 0.6%🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 0.6%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 0.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 65.7% 281 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Pau 66.2%🇵🇹 Coimbra 66.1%🇫🇷 Montauban 65.9%🇿🇲 Lusaka 65.8%Orléans🇫🇷 Bastia 65.4%🇯🇵 Fukuchiyama 65.4%🇵🇹 Lagos 65.4%🇫🇷 Dijon 65.2%

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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