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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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🇫🇷 France · metro 180k · 991 venues mapped

Saint-Étienne

Where Saint-Étienne places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is vanish at lunch, where it ranks 79 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Lyon 50 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Turin 📖 261 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink991 places mapped
11:00–22:30
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18%
open past midnight
58%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
Shops & errands616 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
63%
open on Sundays
71h
open per week
21%
take a midday break
Culture369 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
29%
open on Sundays
23h
open per week
18%
take a midday break
Services310 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
58%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
128
umbrella days a year
33.2 m
of rain since 1981
830
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
116.4 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:02
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.7 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,067
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSaint-Étienne RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 18.1% 120 of 1,878 🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 18.2%🇺🇸 Champaign 18.1%🇫🇮 Jyväskylä 18.1%🇨🇦 London 18.1%Saint-Étienne🇺🇸 Des Moines 18%🇪🇸 Salamanca 18%🇪🇸 Santander 18%🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 18%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 45 h 246 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Novo Hamburgo 45 h🇫🇷 Poitiers 45 h🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 45 h🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 45 hSaint-Étienne🇧🇪 Temse 45 h🇫🇷 Toulouse 45 h🇫🇷 Agen 44.8 h🇫🇷 Nancy 44.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.8% 374 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Cádiz 9.8%🇸🇪 Gävle 9.8%🇦🇴 Lubango 9.8%🇨🇭 Neuchâtel 9.8%Saint-Étienne🇮🇶 Baghdad 9.7%🇨🇭 Basel 9.7%🇮🇪 Limerick 9.7%🇲🇨 Monaco 9.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 35.8% 79 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Lille 35.9%🇫🇷 Montauban 35.9%🇫🇷 Royan 35.9%🇫🇷 Montpellier 35.8%Saint-Étienne🇫🇷 Toulon 35.8%🇮🇹 Treviso 35.8%🇮🇹 Ferrara 35.7%🇫🇷 Brest 35.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Saint Cloud 0%🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 0%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 0%🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 0%Saint-Étienne🇯🇵 Sakata 0%🇪🇸 Salamanca 0%🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 0%🇺🇸 San Clemente 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 63.3% 298 of 1,704 🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 63.8%🇫🇷 Vichy 63.7%🇧🇷 Cuiabá 63.6%🇵🇱 Częstochowa 63.3%Saint-Étienne🇮🇹 Alessandria 63.2%🇨🇿 Jihlava 63.2%🇧🇷 João Pessoa 63.2%🇫🇷 Lorient 63.1%

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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