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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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🇮🇹 Italy · metro 45k · 253 venues mapped

Vercelli

Where Vercelli 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 46 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Novara 21 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Milan 📖 62 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Vercelli 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 & drink253 places mapped
10:30–22:00
0006121824
12%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
66h
open per week
41%
take a midday break
Shops & errands100 places mapped
08:30–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
76h
open per week
24%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
126
umbrella days a year
40.5 m
of rain since 1981
245
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
426.5 km
to Chaine des Puys
2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:46
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.7 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,757
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureVercelli RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.8% 182 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Orenburg 11.8%🇺🇸 Piscataway 11.8%🇫🇷 Sète 11.8%🇹🇳 Tunis 11.8%Vercelli🇰🇷 Wonju 11.8%🇪🇹 Addis Ababa 11.7%🇺🇸 Cleveland 11.7%🇺🇸 Dallas 11.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 66 h 157 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Stockholm 66 h🇹🇼 Tainan 66 h🇪🇸 Tarifa 66 h🇬🇧 Taunton 66 hVercelli🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 65.5 h🇵🇪 Piura 65.5 h🇭🇺 Pécs 65.5 h🇦🇹 Wels 65.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 28.9% 192 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Hat Yai 29.1%🇺🇸 Portland 29.1%🇲🇦 Rabat 29.1%🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 28.9%Vercelli🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi 28.8%🇺🇸 Milwaukee 28.8%🇺🇸 Provo 28.8%🇪🇸 Huelva 28.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 40.8% 46 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Albi 40.9%🇨🇭 Neuchâtel 40.9%🇪🇸 Albacete 40.8%🇫🇷 Troyes 40.8%Vercelli🇮🇹 Vigevano 40.7%🇫🇷 Perpignan 40.6%🇫🇷 Pau 40.5%🇫🇷 Poissy 40.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Valladolid 0%🇮🇹 Varese 0%🇳🇱 Veenendaal 0%🇳🇱 Venlo 0%Vercelli🇧🇪 Verviers 0%🇮🇹 Viareggio 0%🇪🇸 Vic 0%🇫🇷 Vichy 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 76.1% 209 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Gallarate 76.2%🇮🇹 Massa 76.2%🇮🇳 Puducherry 76.2%🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 76.2%Vercelli🇦🇷 Mar del Plata 76%🇧🇷 Belém 75.6%🇪🇨 Guayaquil 75.6%🇮🇹 Pavia 75.4%

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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