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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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 57k · 206 venues mapped

Stralsund

Where Stralsund 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 197 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Rostock 66 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇰 Copenhagen 📖 156 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 & drink206 places mapped
11:00–21:30
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4%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
Shops & errands101 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
18%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
134
umbrella days a year
30.3 m
of rain since 1981
2
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
625.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:45
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.2 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,637
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureStralsund RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.6% 264 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Kherson 3.6%🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 3.6%🇫🇷 Niort 3.6%🇬🇧 Royal Tunbridge Wells 3.6%Stralsund🇸🇰 Trnava 3.6%🇬🇧 Warwick 3.6%🇨🇳 Zhujiajiao 3.6%🇫🇷 Arles 3.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 56 h 197 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Rosario 56 h🇮🇹 Rovereto 56 h🇧🇷 Sao Jose dos Campos 56 h🇬🇧 Scunthorpe 56 hStralsund🇹🇼 Taitung 56 h🇮🇹 Turin 56 h🇯🇵 Utsunomiya 56 h🇳🇱 Venlo 56 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 4.8% 424 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Pasto 4.8%🇵🇱 Poznan 4.8%🇺🇦 Rivne 4.8%🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 4.8%Stralsund🇩🇪 Trier 4.8%🇷🇺 Abakan 4.7%🇰🇿 Astana 4.7%🇫🇷 Colmar 4.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 14.3% 251 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Huelva 14.3%🇦🇹 Linz 14.3%🇳🇿 Rotorua 14.3%🇯🇵 Shizuoka 14.3%Stralsund🇵🇹 Vila Real 14.3%🇩🇪 Magdeburg 14.2%🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 14.2%🇮🇹 Caserta 14.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇧🇬 Stara Zagora 0%🇺🇸 State College 0%🇳🇴 Stavanger 0%🇺🇸 Stillwater 0%Stralsund🇩🇪 Straubing 0%🇮🇪 Swords 0%🇭🇺 Szombathely 0%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 18.5% 520 of 1,704 🇦🇹 Linz 19%🇩🇪 Heilbronn 18.9%🇪🇸 Avilés 18.8%🇪🇸 Burgos 18.6%Stralsund🇦🇹 Graz 18.4%🇩🇪 Magdeburg 18.4%🇩🇪 Neumünster 18.4%🇩🇪 Bamberg 18.3%

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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