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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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🇯🇵 Japan · metro 296k · 951 venues mapped

Akashi

Where Akashi 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇯🇵 Kobe 17 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Osaka 📖 45 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Akashi 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 & drink951 places mapped
10:30–23:30
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13%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
10%
open 24/7
Shops & errands281 places mapped
00:00–24:00
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0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
76%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
101
muggy days a year
42
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
131
umbrella days a year
66.9 m
of rain since 1981
1,113
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
224.1 km
to Sanbesan
19.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:53
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.5 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
7,672
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAkashi RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 13.3% 167 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kumamoto 13.4%🇲🇻 Malé 13.4%🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 13.4%🇳🇱 Veenendaal 13.4%Akashi🇹🇷 Ankara 13.3%🇨🇭 Bern 13.3%🇪🇸 Cartagena 13.3%🇦🇷 Cipolletti 13.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Spartanburg 92 h🇺🇸 Louisville 91.5 h🇷🇸 Novi Sad 91.5 h🇺🇸 South Bend 91.5 hAkashi🇱🇰 Ambalangoda 91 h🇹🇲 Ashgabat 91 h🇷🇺 Astrakhan 91 h🇺🇸 Aurora 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10% 372 of 1,878 🇱🇧 Beirut 10.1%🇯🇵 Gamagori 10.1%🇫🇷 Marseille 10.1%🇬🇧 Plymouth 10.1%Akashi🇪🇨 Ambato 10%🇯🇵 Hamamatsu 10%🇨🇦 Hamilton 10%🇨🇳 Kunming 10%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 6.7% 317 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Lancaster 6.8%🇩🇪 Lübeck 6.8%🇧🇷 Paranoá 6.8%🇧🇷 Sorocaba 6.8%Akashi🇨🇴 Bucaramanga 6.7%🇨🇺 Ciego de Ávila 6.7%🇨🇱 La Serena 6.7%🇬🇧 Loughborough 6.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10% 131 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Birmingham 10.1%🇺🇸 Killeen 10.1%🇬🇧 Lincoln 10.1%🇷🇺 Novorossiysk 10.1%Akashi🇺🇿 Asaka 10%🇮🇩 Bandung 10%🇬🇧 Perth 10%🇰🇷 Seogwipo 10%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 Akashi🇰🇿 Aktobe 100%🇮🇶 Al Hillah 100%🇹🇷 Alanya 100%🇺🇸 Albany 100%

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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