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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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 70k · 371 venues mapped

Wolfsburg

Where Wolfsburg 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 150 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Celle 52 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇪 Berlin 📖 178 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink371 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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1%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
26%
take a midday break
Shops & errands206 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
22%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
Culture76 places mapped
11:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
52%
open on Sundays
12h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Services72 places mapped
08:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
11%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
13%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
154
umbrella days a year
32.8 m
of rain since 1981
136
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
370.8 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:05
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.8 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,749
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureWolfsburg RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.4% 286 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Harrogate 1.4%🇮🇩 Medan 1.4%🇯🇵 Shibata 1.4%🇱🇦 Vientiane 1.4%Wolfsburg🇩🇪 Celle 1.3%🇩🇪 Gera 1.3%🇿🇦 Johannesburg 1.3%🇳🇵 Pokhara 1.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 55.8 h 199 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Grimsby 55.9 h🇩🇪 Bremen 55.8 h🇫🇷 Lens 55.8 h🇩🇪 Lüdenscheid 55.8 hWolfsburg🇳🇱 Bussum 55.5 h🇫🇷 Béziers 55.5 h🇬🇧 Harrogate 55.5 h🇳🇿 Dunedin 55.4 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.2% 410 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Pau 6.2%🇩🇪 Potsdam 6.2%🇵🇹 Tavira 6.2%🇷🇺 Tver 6.2%Wolfsburg🇵🇱 Świdnica 6.2%🇷🇺 Elektrostal 6.1%🇮🇹 Follonica 6.1%🇩🇪 Kehl 6.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 26% 150 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Marseille 26.2%🇪🇸 Santander 26.2%🇨🇭 Winterthur 26.2%🇪🇸 Gandia 26.1%Wolfsburg🇩🇪 Freilassing 25.9%🇯🇵 Komatsu 25.9%🇨🇭 Aarau 25.8%🇪🇸 Lugo 25.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.4% 217 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Sapiranga 1.4%🇩🇪 Schwerin 1.4%🇯🇵 Shibata 1.4%🇵🇱 Warsaw 1.4%Wolfsburg🇩🇪 Würzburg 1.4%🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 1.3%🇫🇷 Arras 1.3%🇺🇸 Asheville 1.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 21.7% 503 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Kleve 21.9%🇩🇪 Rosenheim 21.8%🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 21.8%🇩🇪 Reinbek 21.7%Wolfsburg🇩🇪 Kassel 21.6%🇩🇪 Hildesheim 21.4%🇦🇹 Vienna 21.3%🇩🇪 Würzburg 21.3%

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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