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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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🇵🇹 Portugal · metro 1.1M · 6,273 venues mapped

Porto

Where Porto 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 120 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Porto in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 29 km Nearest written profile 🇵🇹 Lisbon 📖 273 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 & drink6,273 places mapped
11:00–23:00
0006121824
11%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
19%
take a midday break
Shops & errands2,492 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
124
umbrella days a year
46.2 m
of rain since 1981
359
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
465.9 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:09
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.1 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
15,036
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePorto RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.8% 192 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Metz 10.8%🇧🇾 Minsk 10.8%🇯🇵 Osaka 10.8%🇺🇸 Palm Bay 10.8%Porto🇺🇸 Rapid City 10.8%🇺🇸 Richmond 10.8%🇳🇮 Tipitapa 10.8%🇯🇵 Tokyo 10.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 75 h 120 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Doncaster 75 h🇹🇿 Mwanza 75 h🇪🇸 Pamplona 75 h🇬🇧 Pontefract 75 hPorto🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 75 h🇨🇱 Santiago 75 h🇨🇦 Sherwood Park 75 h🇮🇹 Siena 75 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 12.3% 349 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Coimbra 12.3%🇷🇴 Iași 12.3%🇪🇸 Madrid 12.3%🇬🇧 Pontefract 12.3%Porto🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 12.3%🇵🇱 Rybnik 12.3%🇷🇴 Timișoara 12.3%🇮🇹 Catania 12.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 19% 212 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Salerno 19.1%🇮🇹 San Giuseppe Vesuviano 19.1%🇧🇪 Verviers 19.1%🇵🇹 Faro 19%Porto🇯🇵 Tsuruoka 19%🇯🇵 Fukuyama 18.9%🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 18.9%🇹🇼 Taichung 18.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.7% 214 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Las Cruces 1.7%🇬🇧 Littlehampton 1.7%🇫🇷 Lorient 1.7%🇨🇦 Nanaimo 1.7%Porto🇺🇸 Redlands 1.7%🇧🇷 Sorocaba 1.7%🇬🇧 Swindon 1.7%🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 1.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 84.1% 143 of 1,704 🇦🇺 Canberra 84.4%🇺🇸 Charleston 84.2%🇵🇹 Portimão 84.2%🇬🇧 Lowestoft 84.1%Porto🇮🇩 Singkawang 84.1%🇮🇪 Cork 84%🇲🇿 Maputo 84%🇨🇱 Santiago 84%

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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