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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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🇲🇺 Mauritius · metro 557k · 1,212 venues mapped

Port Louis

Where Port Louis 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 114 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Port Louis in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇲🇿 Maputo 2,625 km Nearest written profile 🇰🇪 Nairobi 📖 3,076 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,212 places mapped
10:00–21:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
Shops & errands842 places mapped
08:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
71h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
223
muggy days a year
170
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
134
umbrella days a year
32.9 m
of rain since 1981
17
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
221.8 km
to Fournaise, Piton de la
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:38
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.4 h
longest day of the year
15
public holidays, 2024
5,906
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePort Louis RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.4% 276 of 1,878 🇦🇴 Lubango 2.4%🇺🇦 Luhansk 2.4%🇻🇳 Ninh Bình 2.4%🇲🇽 Nuevo Laredo 2.4%Port Louis🇬🇧 York 2.4%🇯🇵 Akita 2.3%🇵🇪 Cusco 2.3%🇩🇪 Dormagen 2.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 56 h 197 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Motril 56 h🇲🇽 Mérida 56 h🇬🇧 Newport 56 h🇦🇺 Point Cook 56 hPort Louis🇦🇷 Rosario 56 h🇮🇹 Rovereto 56 h🇧🇷 Sao Jose dos Campos 56 h🇬🇧 Scunthorpe 56 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.9% 393 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Cergy 7.9%🇫🇷 Dijon 7.9%🇩🇪 Offenburg 7.9%🇫🇷 Orléans 7.9%Port Louis🇷🇺 Tyumen 7.9%🇫🇷 Valence 7.9%🇪🇸 Valladolid 7.9%🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 7.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 11.8% 272 of 1,878 🇴🇲 Muscat 11.9%🇮🇹 Taranto 11.9%🇬🇧 Doncaster 11.8%🇧🇷 Manaus 11.8%Port Louis🇧🇿 San Pedro 11.8%🇪🇸 Tarifa 11.8%🇯🇵 Kawagoe 11.7%🇬🇧 Northampton 11.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.6% 215 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Halle (Saale) 1.6%🇫🇮 Jyväskylä 1.6%🇮🇪 Limerick 1.6%🇺🇸 Palmdale 1.6%Port Louis🇬🇧 Portsmouth 1.6%🇺🇸 South Bend 1.6%🇲🇽 Toluca 1.6%🇫🇮 Turku 1.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 87.9% 114 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Cagliari 87.9%🇦🇷 Cordoba 87.9%🇬🇧 Crewe 87.9%🇬🇧 Hereford 87.9%Port Louis🇵🇹 Viseu 87.9%🇬🇧 Warrington 87.9%🇨🇦 Cambridge 87.8%🇮🇳 Chennai 87.8%

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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