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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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Paderborn

Where Paderborn places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 210 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Detmold 26 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 228 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Paderborn 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 & drink721 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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7%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
53h
open per week
13%
take a midday break
Shops & errands397 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
32%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
Culture275 places mapped
11:15–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
41%
open on Sundays
18h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
Services197 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
16%
open on Sundays
51h
open per week
35%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
164
umbrella days a year
38.5 m
of rain since 1981
190
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
217.9 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:17
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.7 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,872
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePaderborn RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.3% 227 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Khon Kaen 7.3%🇺🇸 Norwalk 7.3%🇩🇰 Odense 7.3%🇯🇵 Okayama 7.3%Paderborn🇩🇪 Regensburg 7.3%🇬🇧 Runcorn 7.3%🇩🇪 Saarlouis 7.3%🇯🇵 Sakata 7.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 53.2 h 210 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Coburg 53.5 h🇬🇧 Preston 53.5 h🇩🇪 Bielefeld 53.2 h🇫🇷 Douai 53.2 hPaderborn🇪🇸 Vilanova i la Geltrú 53.2 h🇩🇪 Celle 53 h🇫🇷 Creil 53 h🇪🇸 Córdoba 53 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.7% 375 of 1,878 🇮🇪 Limerick 9.7%🇲🇨 Monaco 9.7%🇷🇺 Moscow 9.7%🇵🇱 Pabianice 9.7%Paderborn🇵🇹 Ponta Delgada 9.7%🇦🇷 Posadas 9.7%🇯🇵 Kobe 9.6%🇮🇷 Tehran 9.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 13.3% 259 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Catania 13.5%🇬🇧 Harlow 13.3%🇮🇳 Koyilandy 13.3%🇯🇵 Nagasaki 13.3%Paderborn🇧🇷 Araraquara 13.2%🇯🇵 Beppu 13.2%🇯🇵 Osaka 13.2%🇩🇪 Remscheid 13.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.9% 222 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Münster 0.9%🇩🇪 Neuwied 0.9%🇳🇴 Oslo 0.9%🇬🇧 Oxford 0.9%Paderborn🇺🇸 Peabody 0.9%🇫🇷 Reims 0.9%🇮🇸 Reykjavik 0.9%🇪🇸 Sant Boi de Llobregat 0.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 32.4% 436 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Bremen 32.9%🇲🇪 Budva 32.9%🇩🇪 Kiel 32.5%🇪🇸 Dos Hermanas 32.4%Paderborn🇦🇹 Bregenz 32.3%🇧🇴 La Paz 32.3%🇩🇪 Oldenburg 32.3%🇨🇭 Olten 31.9%

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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