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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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Sherbrooke

Where Sherbrooke 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 107 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Montreal 📖 132 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Sherbrooke 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 & drink254 places mapped
09:00–21:00
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
14%
open 24/7
Shops & errands163 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
18%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
8
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
192
umbrella days a year
51.9 m
of rain since 1981
26
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2864.4 km
to Pico Fracture Zone
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:07
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.7 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,377
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSherbrooke RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.2% 198 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 10.2%🇺🇸 Redlands 10.2%🇺🇸 Reno 10.2%🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 10.2%Sherbrooke🇪🇸 Benidorm 10.1%🇺🇸 Chapel Hill 10.1%🇺🇸 College Station 10.1%🇺🇸 Dunwoody 10.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇺🇸 San Diego 77 h🇧🇿 San Pedro 77 h🇯🇵 Sapporo 77 h🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs 77 hSherbrooke🇯🇵 Shibata 77 h🇺🇸 Simi Valley 77 h🇸🇬 Singapore 77 h🇭🇺 Szombathely 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 16.3% 309 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Gillingham 16.3%🇮🇹 Matera 16.3%🇮🇳 Puducherry 16.3%🇪🇨 Riobamba 16.3%Sherbrooke🇭🇺 Székesfehérvár 16.3%🇲🇽 Tulum 16.3%🇯🇵 Narita 16.2%🇳🇮 Tipitapa 16.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2% 364 of 1,878 🇮🇳 New Delhi 2%🇺🇸 Normal 2%🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 2%🇺🇸 Poway 2%Sherbrooke🇲🇽 Tulum 2%🇷🇺 Yoshkar-Ola 2%🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch 1.9%🇩🇪 Berlin 1.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 14.3% 93 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Medan 14.3%🇮🇩 Rangkasbitung 14.3%🇸🇦 Riyadh 14.3%🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 14.3%Sherbrooke🇷🇺 Obninsk 14%🇬🇧 Liverpool 13.9%🇷🇺 Saratov 13.9%🇧🇷 Uberlândia 13.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇨🇦 Sarnia 100%🇺🇸 Schenectady 100%🇴🇲 Seeb 100%🇲🇾 Seremban 100%Sherbrooke🇺🇸 Sherwood 100%🇮🇷 Shiraz 100%🇯🇵 Shizuoka 100%🇩🇿 Sidi Moussa 100%

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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