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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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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 330k · 1,226 venues mapped

Stoke-on-Trent

Where Stoke-on-Trent 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 61 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Crewe 20 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 217 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Stoke-on-Trent 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 & drink1,226 places mapped
11:00–22:55
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7%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands478 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Services231 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
14%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
Culture185 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
56%
open on Sundays
38h
open per week
24%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
170
umbrella days a year
38.6 m
of rain since 1981
5
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
698.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:54
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.9 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,623
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureStoke-on-Trent RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.1% 229 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Manila 7.1%🇯🇵 Matsuyama 7.1%🇺🇸 Merced 7.1%🇨🇿 Prague 7.1%Stoke-on-Trent🇯🇵 Takaoka 7.1%🇷🇺 Zelenograd 7.1%🇷🇺 Abakan 7%🇬🇧 Belfast 7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 54.5 h 205 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Görlitz 54.5 h🇬🇧 Huddersfield 54.5 h🇮🇹 Latina 54.5 h🇩🇪 Mannheim 54.5 hStoke-on-Trent🇯🇵 Komatsu 54.2 h🇱🇺 Luxembourg 54.2 h🇩🇪 Ulm 54.2 h🇩🇪 Aalen 54 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 14.2% 330 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Reus 14.3%🇬🇧 Scarborough 14.3%🇮🇩 Surabaya 14.3%🇭🇺 Sopron 14.2%Stoke-on-Trent🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 14.2%🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 14.2%🇮🇳 Kottayam 14.1%🇯🇵 Nagoya 14.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.3% 341 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Maceió 4.3%🇺🇸 Manhattan 4.3%🇻🇳 Phan Thiết 4.3%🇧🇷 Santos 4.3%Stoke-on-Trent🇳🇱 Venlo 4.3%🇻🇳 Vũng Tàu 4.3%🇺🇸 Winston-Salem 4.3%🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 4.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.1% 200 of 1,878 🇺🇸 New Haven 3.1%🇭🇺 Pécs 3.1%🇵🇱 Rybnik 3.1%🇵🇱 Rzeszów 3.1%Stoke-on-Trent🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 3.1%🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 3%🇺🇸 Chico 3%🇺🇸 Coeur d'Alene 3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.8% 61 of 1,704 🇷🇴 Ploiești 93.8%🇿🇦 Pretoria 93.8%🇺🇸 Redding 93.8%🇺🇸 Scranton 93.8%Stoke-on-Trent🇲🇽 Tepic 93.8%🇺🇸 Topeka 93.8%🇩🇿 Zeralda 93.8%🇺🇦 Lviv 93.7%

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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