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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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🇦🇹 Austria · metro 54k · 817 venues mapped

Wels

Where Wels places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 158 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇦🇹 Linz 24 km Nearest written profile 🇦🇹 Vienna 📖 173 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Wels 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 & drink817 places mapped
10:00–22:38
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12%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
66h
open per week
22%
take a midday break
Shops & errands419 places mapped
07:15–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
17%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
9%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
185
umbrella days a year
55.6 m
of rain since 1981
227
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
567.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:13
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.1 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,419
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureWels RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12% 180 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Daytona Beach 12%🇺🇸 Los Angeles 12%🇬🇧 Scunthorpe 12%🇨🇭 Thun 12%Wels🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch 11.9%🇺🇸 Baton Rouge 11.9%🇫🇷 Bordeaux 11.9%🇺🇸 Chico 11.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 65.5 h 158 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Vercelli 66 h🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 65.5 h🇵🇪 Piura 65.5 h🇭🇺 Pécs 65.5 hWels🇨🇿 Zlín 65.5 h🇬🇧 Leeds 65.2 h🇬🇧 Bristol 65 h🇧🇷 Campina Grande 65 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.2% 360 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Vitória 11.3%🇪🇸 Pamplona 11.2%🇨🇿 Pilsen 11.2%🇷🇺 Pushkin 11.2%Wels🇷🇺 Anapa 11.1%🇧🇷 Blumenau 11.1%🇲🇽 Culiacán 11.1%🇪🇸 Granada 11.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 21.5% 191 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Saint John 21.7%🇮🇹 Forlì 21.6%🇯🇵 Gamagori 21.6%🇩🇪 Hamm 21.6%Wels🇦🇺 Launceston 21.4%🇯🇵 Toyohashi 21.4%🇩🇪 Neuwied 21.3%🇧🇷 Sao Jose dos Campos 21.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.4% 227 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Rüsselsheim am Main 0.4%🇬🇧 St Albans 0.4%🇩🇪 Trier 0.4%🇮🇹 Turin 0.4%Wels🇨🇭 Wettingen 0.4%🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 0.4%🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 0.3%🇫🇷 Angers 0.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 16.8% 526 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Dresden 18.2%🇪🇸 Córdoba 17.2%🇩🇪 Saarlouis 16.9%🇩🇪 Kempten (Allgäu) 16.8%Wels🇩🇪 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 16.3%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 16.1%🇩🇪 Regensburg 16%🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 15.9%

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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