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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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🇹🇳 Tunisia · metro 537k · 311 venues mapped

Sousse

Where Sousse 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 18 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇹🇳 Hammamet 64 km Nearest written profile 🇲🇹 Valletta 📖 350 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct, Nov — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink311 places mapped
08:30–24:00
0006121824
17%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
17%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
31
muggy days a year
33
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
59
umbrella days a year
17.1 m
of rain since 1981
2,879
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
162.5 km
to Pantelleria
2.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:08
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.6 h
longest day of the year
17
public holidays, 2024
13,273
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSousse RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 16.7% 133 of 1,878 🇵🇪 Pisco 16.7%🇵🇪 Piura 16.7%🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 16.7%🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 16.7%Sousse🇬🇧 Derby 16.6%🇮🇪 Galway 16.5%🇺🇸 Tampa 16.5%🇪🇸 Donostia / San Sebastián 16.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 105 h 18 of 1,878 🇲🇦 Rabat 105 h🇸🇦 Riyadh 105 h🇦🇱 Shkoder 105 h🇱🇧 Sidon 105 hSousse🇦🇱 Tirana 105 h🇧🇦 Tuzla 105 h🇮🇳 Visakhapatnam 105 h🇺🇸 Wichita Falls 105 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10% 372 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Resistencia 10%🇯🇵 Saga 10%🇨🇺 Santiago de Cuba 10%🇰🇷 Seogwipo 10%Sousse🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 10%🇯🇵 Tanabe 10%🇯🇵 Utsunomiya 10%🇧🇷 Araraquara 9.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.3% 351 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Kollam 3.3%🇧🇷 Lago Norte 3.3%🇺🇸 Mount Vernon 3.3%🇨🇺 Santa Clara 3.3%Sousse🇺🇸 State College 3.3%🇷🇺 Surgut 3.3%🇨🇺 Varadero 3.3%🇨🇳 Wuhan 3.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 16.7% 75 of 1,878 🇸🇦 Dammam 17.1%🇮🇩 Surabaya 17%🇲🇦 Agadir 16.7%🇨🇺 Cienfuegos 16.7%Sousse🇨🇦 Abbotsford 16.4%🇷🇺 Elektrostal 16.3%🇬🇧 Telford 16.3%🇱🇧 Beirut 16.2%

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.

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