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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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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 116k · 783 venues mapped

Runcorn

Where Runcorn 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 81 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Warrington 12 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇪 Dublin 📖 234 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Runcorn 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 & drink783 places mapped
10:00–23:00
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7%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
76h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Shops & errands353 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Culture146 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
31%
open on Sundays
37h
open per week
Services132 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
10%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
192
umbrella days a year
45 m
of rain since 1981
2
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
747 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:54
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,659
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureRuncorn RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.3% 227 of 1,878 🇩🇰 Odense 7.3%🇯🇵 Okayama 7.3%🇩🇪 Paderborn 7.3%🇩🇪 Regensburg 7.3%Runcorn🇩🇪 Saarlouis 7.3%🇯🇵 Sakata 7.3%🇺🇸 San Francisco 7.3%🇷🇴 Sibiu 7.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 76.5 h 114 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Southport 76.8 h🇺🇸 Fort Collins 76.5 h🇨🇦 London 76.5 h🇪🇨 Puyo 76.5 hRuncorn🇺🇸 Amarillo 76 h🇨🇦 Barrie 76 h🇬🇧 Birmingham 76 h🇬🇧 Camberley 76 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 25.5% 223 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 25.6%🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 25.5%🇨🇭 Lugano 25.5%🇮🇹 Rovereto 25.5%Runcorn🇵🇪 Trujillo 25.5%🇺🇸 Campbell 25.4%🇺🇸 Raleigh 25.4%🇺🇸 Lincoln 25.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.5% 369 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Norcross 1.5%🇺🇸 Orlando 1.5%🇭🇷 Pula 1.5%🇭🇺 Pécs 1.5%Runcorn🇺🇸 Savannah 1.5%🇺🇸 Tucson 1.5%🇭🇺 Veszprém 1.5%🇺🇸 Appleton 1.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.8% 173 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Bucharest 5.8%🇦🇷 Cordoba 5.8%🇧🇷 Niterói 5.8%🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 5.8%Runcorn🇮🇷 Shiraz 5.8%🇷🇺 Sochi 5.8%🇺🇸 Tacoma 5.8%🇺🇸 Anchorage 5.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 91.7% 81 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Acireale 91.7%🇬🇧 Aylesbury 91.7%🇫🇮 Joensuu 91.7%🇺🇸 Olympia 91.7%Runcorn🇬🇧 Weston-super-Mare 91.7%🇦🇺 Ballarat 91.5%🇻🇪 Caracas 91.4%🇮🇩 Gresik 91.4%

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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