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The Anti-Awards

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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
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The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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Abbotsford

Where Abbotsford 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 72 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Maple Ridge 31 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Vancouver 📖 67 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 & drink695 places mapped
10:00–22:00
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6%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
82h
open per week
16%
open 24/7
Shops & errands250 places mapped
08:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
26%
open 24/7
Services158 places mapped
08:45–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
46%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
Culture101 places mapped
09:30–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
60%
open on Sundays
39h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
197
umbrella days a year
64.1 m
of rain since 1981
208
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
44.8 km
to Baker
1.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:14
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.2 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
14,889
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAbbotsford RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.2% 238 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Pensacola 6.3%🇮🇩 Rangkasbitung 6.3%🇺🇸 Santa Barbara 6.3%🇩🇪 Wuppertal 6.3%Abbotsford🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 6.2%🇬🇧 Cannock 6.2%🇨🇦 Charlottetown 6.2%🇨🇿 Frýdek-Místek 6.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 82 h 91 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Scarborough 82.5 h🇮🇳 Alappuzha 82.2 h🇺🇸 Kennewick 82.2 h🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 82.2 hAbbotsford🇧🇩 Chattogram 82 h🇭🇺 Kecskemét 82 h🇪🇸 Lugo 82 h🇨🇦 Pickering 82 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 19.2% 281 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Como 19.3%🇮🇩 Denpasar 19.3%🇨🇴 Medellín 19.3%🇮🇹 Verona 19.3%Abbotsford🇬🇧 Gloucester 19.2%🇬🇧 Livingston 19.2%🇪🇸 Terrassa 19.2%🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 19.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.1% 373 of 1,878 🇳🇴 Trondheim 1.2%🇺🇸 Waterbury 1.2%🇬🇧 Worcester 1.2%🇷🇺 Yaroslavl 1.2%Abbotsford🇺🇸 Baltimore 1.1%🇺🇸 Birmingham 1.1%🇰🇬 Bishkek 1.1%🇬🇷 Chania 1.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 16.4% 76 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Surabaya 17%🇲🇦 Agadir 16.7%🇨🇺 Cienfuegos 16.7%🇹🇳 Sousse 16.7%Abbotsford🇷🇺 Elektrostal 16.3%🇬🇧 Telford 16.3%🇱🇧 Beirut 16.2%🇷🇺 Podolsk 16%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 92.7% 72 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Stevenage 92.9%🇺🇸 Winchester 92.9%🇬🇧 Guildford 92.8%🇺🇸 Toledo 92.8%Abbotsford🇺🇸 Rapid City 92.7%🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 92.7%🇬🇧 Barry 92.6%🇬🇧 Bath 92.6%

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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