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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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Schweinfurt

Where Schweinfurt 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 185 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Würzburg 34 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇪 Munich 📖 234 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, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink333 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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5%
open past midnight
73%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
22%
take a midday break
Shops & errands185 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
14%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
Services93 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
28%
take a midday break
Culture80 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
48%
open on Sundays
18h
open per week
5%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
138
umbrella days a year
30.9 m
of rain since 1981
479
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
240.8 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:19
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.4 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,737
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSchweinfurt RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.4% 246 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Ko Samui 5.4%🇩🇪 Landshut 5.4%🇬🇧 Loughborough 5.4%🇬🇧 Preston 5.4%Schweinfurt🇧🇪 Temse 5.4%🇧🇷 Arujá 5.3%🇬🇧 Bournemouth 5.3%🇨🇳 Chengdu 5.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 48 h 233 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Marignane 48 h🇦🇷 Posadas 48 h🇫🇷 Reims 48 h🇩🇪 Saarlouis 48 hSchweinfurt🇫🇷 Troyes 48 h🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 48 h🇫🇷 Quimper 47.9 h🇮🇹 Perugia 47.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 3.6% 436 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Yaroslavl 3.7%🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 3.6%🇬🇪 Kutaisi 3.6%🇩🇪 Lippstadt 3.6%Schweinfurt🇰🇬 Bishkek 3.5%🇩🇪 Halle (Saale) 3.5%🇩🇪 Magdeburg 3.5%🇩🇰 Aalborg 3.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 22.3% 185 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Rome 22.5%🇪🇸 Barcelona 22.4%🇪🇸 Donostia / San Sebastián 22.4%🇦🇷 Mendoza 22.4%Schweinfurt🇵🇪 Piura 22.2%🇯🇵 Sano 22%🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 22%🇩🇪 Gütersloh 21.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 0%🇲🇽 Santiago de Querétaro 0%🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs 0%🇨🇭 Schaffhausen 0%Schweinfurt🇵🇹 Setúbal 0%🇩🇪 Siegen 0%🇮🇹 Siena 0%🇨🇴 Sogamoso 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 13.8% 539 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Jaén 14.3%🇩🇪 Halle (Saale) 14.2%🇩🇪 Aalen 13.9%🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 13.8%Schweinfurt🇪🇸 Segovia 13.3%🇩🇪 Bayreuth 13.1%🇩🇪 Jena 13.1%🇳🇴 Stavanger 12.7%

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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