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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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🇫🇮 Finland · metro 218k · 406 venues mapped

Oulu

Where Oulu 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 52 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Oulu in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇸🇪 Umeå 282 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇮 Turku 📖 533 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Oulu 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 & drink406 places mapped
10:30–22:00
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20%
open past midnight
69%
open on Sundays
69h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands138 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
102h
open per week
9%
open 24/7
Culture68 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
33%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
150
umbrella days a year
33.8 m
of rain since 1981
2
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1525.2 km
to Jan Mayen
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
14:04
winter sunset (solar approx.)
22.1 h
longest day of the year
15
public holidays, 2024
13,213
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureOulu RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 20.5% 102 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 20.5%🇸🇳 Dakar 20.5%🇺🇸 Great Falls 20.5%🇷🇸 Niš 20.5%Oulu🇺🇸 North Charleston 20.4%🇮🇹 Parma 20.4%🇲🇾 Alor Setar 20.3%🇮🇹 Novara 20.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 69 h 144 of 1,878 🇵🇾 Ciudad del Este 69 h🇮🇱 Jerusalem 69 h🇪🇸 Lleida 69 h🇪🇸 Murcia 69 hOulu🇺🇸 Palm Desert 69 h🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 69 h🇺🇸 Santa Barbara 69 h🇪🇸 Santa Pola 69 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.8% 414 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 5.8%🇧🇪 La Louvière 5.8%🇧🇪 Liège 5.8%🇫🇷 Metz 5.8%Oulu🇫🇷 Poitiers 5.8%🇩🇪 Reinbek 5.8%🇧🇷 Sapiranga 5.8%🇷🇺 Sochi 5.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Oshkosh 0%🇭🇷 Osijek 0%🇪🇨 Otavalo 0%🇧🇫 Ouagadougou 0%Oulu🇺🇸 Oxford 0%🇮🇩 Palembang 0%🇺🇸 Palmdale 0%🇨🇴 Palmira 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.5% 186 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Durham 4.5%🇧🇾 Hrodna 4.5%🇩🇪 Neumünster 4.5%🇪🇨 Otavalo 4.5%Oulu🇦🇷 Posadas 4.5%🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 4.5%🇵🇱 Radom 4.5%🇪🇸 San Fernando 4.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94.7% 52 of 1,704 🇨🇩 Kinshasa 94.7%🇺🇸 Little Elm 94.7%🇧🇾 Minsk 94.7%🇵🇸 Nablus 94.7%Oulu🇨🇦 Quebec 94.7%🇺🇸 Raleigh 94.7%🇬🇧 Southport 94.7%🇺🇸 Stockton 94.7%

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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