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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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Verviers

Where Verviers 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 211 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇪 Liège 21 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 98 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Verviers 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 & drink730 places mapped
11:00–21:30
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3%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
19%
take a midday break
Shops & errands329 places mapped
08:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
60%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
Culture197 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
27%
open on Sundays
29h
open per week
Services156 places mapped
09:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
4%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
15%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
158
umbrella days a year
41.3 m
of rain since 1981
141
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
1
volcanoes within 100 km
84.1 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:34
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
14,053
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureVerviers RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.9% 271 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Neuwied 2.9%🇸🇰 Poprad 2.9%🇩🇪 Unna 2.9%🇳🇱 Venlo 2.9%Verviers🇷🇺 Volgograd 2.9%🇭🇳 La Lima 2.8%🇩🇪 Lübeck 2.8%🇧🇦 Mostar 2.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 50 h 224 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Pforzheim 50 h🇧🇷 Sorocaba 50 h🇫🇷 Sète 50 h🇹🇼 Taichung 50 hVerviers🇮🇹 Gallarate 49.9 h🇬🇧 Elland 49.8 h🇳🇱 Roosendaal 49.8 h🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 49.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 2.4% 448 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Royan 2.6%🇧🇴 Tarija 2.6%🇲🇽 Puebla 2.5%🇨🇱 Valparaíso 2.5%Verviers🇳🇱 Groningen 2.3%🇨🇿 Jihlava 2.3%🇬🇧 Telford 2.3%🇳🇱 Utrecht 2.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 19.1% 211 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Girona 19.2%🇩🇪 Aschaffenburg 19.1%🇮🇹 Salerno 19.1%🇮🇹 San Giuseppe Vesuviano 19.1%Verviers🇵🇹 Faro 19%🇵🇹 Porto 19%🇯🇵 Tsuruoka 19%🇯🇵 Fukuyama 18.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Varese 0%🇳🇱 Veenendaal 0%🇳🇱 Venlo 0%🇮🇹 Vercelli 0%Verviers🇮🇹 Viareggio 0%🇪🇸 Vic 0%🇫🇷 Vichy 0%🇵🇹 Vila Real 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 59.7% 322 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Matera 60%🇧🇿 San Pedro 60%🇮🇹 Pescara 59.9%🇫🇷 Brest 59.7%Verviers🇧🇪 La Louvière 59.6%🇳🇱 Arnhem 59.4%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 59.4%🇧🇪 Roeselare 59.4%

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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