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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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Stavanger

Where Stavanger places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 171 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇳🇴 Drammen 268 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇴 Oslo 📖 302 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Stavanger 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 & drink265 places mapped
11:00–22:00
0006121824
13%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
58h
open per week
Shops & errands153 places mapped
07:00–23:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
13%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
216
umbrella days a year
79.5 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
981.1 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
18.5 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
14,139
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureStavanger RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.9% 171 of 1,878 🇨🇾 Larnaca 12.9%🇮🇪 Limerick 12.9%🇪🇸 Roquetas de Mar 12.9%🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 12.9%Stavanger🇫🇮 Turku 12.9%🇷🇺 Angarsk 12.8%🇫🇷 Besançon 12.8%🇯🇵 Echizen 12.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 58.5 h 187 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Pistoia 59 h🇮🇹 Piacenza 58.8 h🇩🇪 Dusseldorf 58.5 h🇩🇪 Lüneburg 58.5 hStavanger🇮🇪 Swords 58.5 h🇯🇵 Sendai 58.2 h🇩🇪 Bocholt 58 h🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 58 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 2.9% 443 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kishiwada 2.9%🇷🇴 Ploiești 2.9%🇪🇨 Quito 2.9%🇨🇱 Rancagua 2.9%Stavanger🇩🇪 Unna 2.9%🇷🇺 Vyborg 2.9%🇳🇱 Arnhem 2.8%🇰🇷 Gwangju 2.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.4% 370 of 1,878 🇸🇰 Poprad 1.4%🇮🇷 Rasht 1.4%🇺🇸 Schenectady 1.4%🇺🇸 Stamford 1.4%Stavanger🇬🇧 Sunderland 1.4%🇨🇿 České Budějovice 1.4%🇱🇹 Šiauliai 1.4%🇺🇸 Boston 1.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇭🇺 Sopron 0%🇭🇷 Split 0%🇧🇬 Stara Zagora 0%🇺🇸 State College 0%Stavanger🇺🇸 Stillwater 0%🇩🇪 Stralsund 0%🇩🇪 Straubing 0%🇮🇪 Swords 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 12.7% 542 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Schweinfurt 13.8%🇪🇸 Segovia 13.3%🇩🇪 Bayreuth 13.1%🇩🇪 Jena 13.1%Stavanger🇩🇪 Passau 12%🇦🇹 Villach 12%🇮🇳 Payyanur 11.8%🇩🇪 Coburg 11.4%

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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