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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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🇫🇷 France · metro 290k · 1,537 venues mapped

Toulon

Where Toulon places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is vanish at lunch, where it ranks 79 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Marseille 48 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Turin 📖 258 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,537 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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9%
open past midnight
70%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
Shops & errands822 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
19%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Services443 places mapped
08:45–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
37h
open per week
54%
take a midday break
Culture267 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
37%
open on Sundays
30h
open per week
37%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
28
muggy days a year
7
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
74
umbrella days a year
24.2 m
of rain since 1981
32
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
297.5 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:04
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
13,894
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureToulon RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.6% 214 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 8.6%🇫🇷 Mulhouse 8.6%🇩🇪 Offenburg 8.6%🇵🇹 Ponta Delgada 8.6%Toulon🇷🇺 Vyborg 8.6%🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 8.5%🇺🇸 Aurora 8.5%🇨🇳 Beijing 8.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 47.5 h 236 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 47.5 h🇮🇹 Arezzo 47.5 h🇫🇷 Pau 47.5 h🇫🇷 Rennes 47.5 hToulon🇧🇷 Uberlândia 47.5 h🇮🇹 Viareggio 47.5 h🇫🇷 Bordeaux 47.2 h🇧🇷 Nova Lima 47 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.9% 373 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Córdoba 9.9%🇬🇧 Littlehampton 9.9%🇧🇷 Niterói 9.9%🇨🇦 Pickering 9.9%Toulon🇫🇮 Turku 9.9%🇧🇷 Cuiabá 9.8%🇪🇸 Cádiz 9.8%🇸🇪 Gävle 9.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 35.8% 79 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Montauban 35.9%🇫🇷 Royan 35.9%🇫🇷 Montpellier 35.8%🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 35.8%Toulon🇮🇹 Treviso 35.8%🇮🇹 Ferrara 35.7%🇫🇷 Brest 35.6%🇫🇷 Quimper 35.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.3% 228 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Maurepas 0.3%🇩🇪 Potsdam 0.3%🇩🇪 Reutlingen 0.3%🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 0.3%Toulon🇩🇪 Ulm 0.3%🇦🇹 Vienna 0.3%🇳🇱 Amsterdam 0.2%🇮🇹 Bologna 0.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 80.9% 173 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Rovereto 81%🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 81%🇧🇬 Sofia 80.9%🇬🇧 Taunton 80.9%Toulon🇺🇸 Layton 80.8%🇫🇷 Maurepas 80.8%🇧🇦 Banja Luka 80.7%🇺🇸 Anchorage 80.6%

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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