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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 909k · 3,735 venues mapped

Stuttgart

Where Stuttgart 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 192 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Gerlingen 9 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇭 Zurich 📖 164 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Stuttgart 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 & drink3,735 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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8%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
20%
take a midday break
Shops & errands1,673 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
26%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
Culture881 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
46%
open on Sundays
31h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
Services687 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
7%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
28%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
151
umbrella days a year
36.9 m
of rain since 1981
448
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
228.2 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
1.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:29
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.2 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,784
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureStuttgart RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.5% 225 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Miri 7.5%🇺🇸 Naples 7.5%🇯🇵 Saga 7.5%🇺🇸 San Clemente 7.5%Stuttgart🇯🇵 Wakayama 7.5%🇷🇴 Arad 7.4%🇨🇴 Cúcuta 7.4%🇺🇸 Flagstaff 7.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57.2 h 192 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Cartagena 57.5 h🇩🇪 Munich 57.5 h🇵🇹 Évora 57.5 h🇪🇸 Castelldefels 57.2 hStuttgart🇫🇷 Avignon 57 h🇮🇹 Como 57 h🇬🇧 Darlington 57 h🇧🇷 Fortaleza 57 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.9% 403 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Voronezh 7%🇷🇺 Belgorod 6.9%🇧🇷 Goiânia 6.9%🇸🇪 Helsingborg 6.9%Stuttgart🇯🇵 Yokote 6.9%🇩🇪 Zwickau 6.9%🇷🇺 Barnaul 6.8%🇰🇷 Busan 6.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 19.5% 207 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Reutlingen 19.6%🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 19.6%🇩🇪 Lüdenscheid 19.5%🇪🇸 Murcia 19.5%Stuttgart🇬🇧 Guildford 19.4%🇵🇹 Lisbon 19.4%🇮🇹 Viterbo 19.3%🇪🇸 Girona 19.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.1% 230 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Zurich 0.2%🇨🇭 Bern 0.1%🇧🇪 Brussels 0.1%🇫🇷 Montpellier 0.1%Stuttgart🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch 0%🇩🇪 Aalen 0%🇨🇭 Aarau 0%🇮🇹 Acireale 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 25.8% 474 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Bielefeld 26.2%🇩🇪 Essen 26.2%🇳🇴 Trondheim 26%🇩🇪 Munich 25.9%Stuttgart🇩🇪 Potsdam 25.6%🇨🇭 Solothurn 25.6%🇨🇭 Lugano 25.5%🇪🇸 Nerja 25%

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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