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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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🇪🇸 Spain · metro 59k · 247 venues mapped

Zamora

Where Zamora places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 35 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Valladolid 87 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Madrid 📖 210 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink247 places mapped
09:00–24:00
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32%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
82h
open per week
25%
take a midday break
Shops & errands137 places mapped
09:00–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
34%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
45%
take a midday break
Services55 places mapped
09:30–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
6%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
44%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
90
umbrella days a year
19 m
of rain since 1981
2,145
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
327.7 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:56
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.2 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,804
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureZamora RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 31.8% 35 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Santa Fe 33.3%🇮🇹 Pistoia 32.8%🇦🇷 Bahía Blanca 32.2%🇺🇾 Maldonado 32%Zamora🇮🇩 Banjarmasin 31.6%🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 31.4%🇺🇿 Yangiyul 31.2%🇹🇷 Eskisehir 31%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 82 h 91 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Pickering 82 h🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 82 h🇪🇸 Segovia 82 h🇺🇸 Spokane 82 hZamora🇪🇸 Bilbao 81.8 h🇬🇧 King's Lynn 81.5 h🇺🇸 Los Angeles 81.5 h🇪🇸 Avilés 81 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 24.7% 230 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Sant Boi de Llobregat 24.8%🇺🇸 Spokane Valley 24.8%🇨🇦 Kamloops 24.7%🇺🇸 Terre Haute 24.7%Zamora🇬🇧 Maidstone 24.6%🇿🇦 Somerset West 24.6%🇨🇦 Windsor 24.6%🇨🇦 Edmonton 24.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 24.7% 162 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Lippstadt 25%🇧🇪 Tournai 25%🇩🇪 Trier 24.9%🇮🇹 Lucca 24.8%Zamora🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 24.6%🇦🇹 Bregenz 24.5%🇩🇪 Rosenheim 24.5%🇩🇪 Heidelberg 24.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇳🇦 Windhoek 0%🇨🇭 Winterthur 0%🇺🇦 Yalta 0%🇯🇵 Yokote 0%Zamora🇨🇿 Zlín 0%🇩🇪 Zwickau 0%🇳🇱 Zwolle 0%🇵🇹 Évora 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 34.4% 430 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 34.7%🇨🇭 Biel/Bienne 34.6%🇩🇪 Hagen 34.5%🇳🇴 Oslo 34.4%Zamora🇩🇪 Dormagen 34.2%🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 34.2%🇩🇪 Lübeck 33.7%🇬🇷 Chania 33.3%

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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