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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
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The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 111k · 949 venues mapped

Torquay

Where Torquay 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 119 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Exeter 29 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 265 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jul — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink949 places mapped
09:30–21:00
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4%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands329 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Culture180 places mapped
09:30–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
7%
open on Sundays
38h
open per week
Services150 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
34%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
187
umbrella days a year
48.7 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
709.1 km
to Chaine des Puys
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:12
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,713
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTorquay RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.1% 259 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 4.1%🇬🇧 Chesterfield 4.1%🇺🇬 Kampala 4.1%🇸🇰 Nitra 4.1%Torquay🇨🇭 Basel 4%🇺🇸 Boulder 4%🇩🇪 Bremerhaven 4%🇩🇪 Hildesheim 4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 54 h 207 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Rüsselsheim am Main 54 h🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 54 h🇩🇪 Siegen 54 h🇳🇱 Tilburg 54 hTorquay🇮🇹 Trapani 54 h🇩🇪 Trier 54 h🇳🇱 Utrecht 54 h🇪🇸 Vigo 54 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.6% 356 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Angoulême 11.6%🇨🇴 Armenia 11.6%🇬🇧 Cheltenham 11.6%🇨🇾 Limassol 11.6%Torquay🇪🇸 Burgos 11.5%🇬🇧 Derby 11.5%🇬🇧 Huddersfield 11.5%🇬🇷 Kos 11.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.4% 350 of 1,878 🇺🇸 New Orleans 3.4%🇻🇳 Nha Trang 3.4%🇱🇦 Pakse 3.4%🇧🇷 Teresina 3.4%Torquay🇺🇸 Des Moines 3.3%🇺🇸 Draper 3.3%🇳🇱 Heerlen 3.3%🇹🇭 Khon Kaen 3.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.7% 204 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Philadelphia 2.7%🇺🇸 Reading 2.7%🇺🇸 Schenectady 2.7%🇬🇧 Sunderland 2.7%Torquay🇺🇸 Wichita Falls 2.7%🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 2.7%🇺🇸 Yakima 2.7%🇵🇱 Zakopane 2.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 87.3% 119 of 1,704 🇵🇪 Trujillo 87.5%🇮🇪 Waterford 87.5%🇫🇷 Creil 87.3%🇨🇷 San José 87.3%Torquay🇬🇧 Keighley 87.2%🇸🇪 Lund 87.1%🇺🇸 Manchester 87.1%🇧🇷 Campinas 87%

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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