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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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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 307k · 2,876 venues mapped

Wakefield

Where Wakefield 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 21 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Pontefract 12 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 259 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, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink2,876 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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10%
open past midnight
80%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands989 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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1%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
102h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Culture272 places mapped
10:00–17:00
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0%
open past midnight
46%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
Services268 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
28%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
157
umbrella days a year
32.8 m
of rain since 1981
6
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
692.3 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:47
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.1 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,577
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureWakefield RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.5% 205 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Olsztyn 9.5%🇨🇳 Suzhou 9.5%🇺🇸 Troy 9.5%🇦🇹 Vienna 9.5%Wakefield🇵🇹 Braga 9.4%🇬🇧 Cardiff 9.4%🇵🇹 Funchal 9.4%🇦🇹 Graz 9.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 67.5 h 149 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Cáceres 67.5 h🇯🇵 Osaka 67.5 h🇺🇸 San Francisco 67.5 h🇪🇸 Valladolid 67.5 hWakefield🇬🇧 Gillingham 67.2 h🇸🇪 Uppsala 67.2 h🇲🇽 Zapopan 67.2 h🇸🇻 Cojutepeque 67.1 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 16.1% 311 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Tulum 16.3%🇯🇵 Narita 16.2%🇳🇮 Tipitapa 16.2%🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 16.1%Wakefield🇹🇭 Hua Hin 16%🇫🇷 Limoges 16%🇲🇽 Puerto Vallarta 16%🇬🇧 Warwick 16%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.8% 366 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Mansfield 1.8%🇧🇷 Niterói 1.8%🇸🇰 Trnava 1.8%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 1.8%Wakefield🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 1.7%🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 1.7%🇺🇸 Annapolis 1.7%🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 1.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.8% 193 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Sendai 3.8%🇬🇧 Slough 3.8%🇮🇩 Ubud 3.8%🇺🇸 Waco 3.8%Wakefield🇺🇸 Yuma 3.8%🇲🇽 Zapopan 3.8%🇷🇺 Azov 3.7%🇬🇧 Bridgend 3.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.8% 21 of 1,704 🇹🇷 Fethiye 97.8%🇯🇵 Fukuoka 97.8%🇯🇵 Kisarazu 97.8%🇯🇵 Sendai 97.8%Wakefield🇮🇱 Yavne 97.8%🇮🇩 Bandung 97.7%🇰🇬 Bishkek 97.7%🇿🇦 Centurion 97.7%

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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