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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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🇮🇶 Iraq · metro 1.0M · 295 venues mapped

Al Hillah

Where Al Hillah 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 🇮🇶 Karbala 41 km Nearest written profile 🇦🇲 Yerevan 📖 858 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands447 places mapped
06:30–23:00
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12%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
119h
open per week
31%
open 24/7
Food & drink295 places mapped
06:00–24:00
0006121824
30%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
122h
open per week
41%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
119
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
23
umbrella days a year
5.5 m
of rain since 1981
9,451
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
641.9 km
to Ash Shaam, Harrat
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:01
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.3 h
longest day of the year
16
public holidays, 2024
10,366
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAl Hillah RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 29.6% 45 of 1,878 🇰🇿 Petropavl 30.2%🇯🇴 Amman 30%🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 30%🇳🇬 Lagos 29.8%Al Hillah🇨🇬 Pointe-Noire 29.2%🇲🇦 Tangier 29.2%🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi 28.8%🇪🇸 Huelva 28.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 122.5 h 5 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Watampone 168 h🇮🇳 Kasaragod 154 h🇲🇱 Bamako 130.7 h🇸🇦 Jeddah 126 hAl Hillah🇦🇱 Fier 119 h🇮🇶 Karbala 119 h🇲🇻 Malé 119 h🇪🇬 Cairo 118.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.5% 287 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Tarragona 18.8%🇮🇳 Udaipur 18.8%🇮🇶 Kirkuk 18.6%🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 18.6%Al Hillah🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 18.5%🇮🇳 Coimbatore 18.4%🇮🇹 Florence 18.4%🇵🇹 Funchal 18.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇲🇦 Agadir 0%🇮🇳 Agra 0%🇨🇦 Airdrie 0%🇰🇿 Aktobe 0%Al Hillah🇹🇷 Alanya 0%🇮🇳 Alappuzha 0%🇸🇾 Aleppo 0%🇪🇬 Alexandria 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 40.7% 9 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Kasaragod 50%🇮🇩 Palembang 47.1%🇵🇭 Apalit 45%🇲🇱 Bamako 42.3%Al Hillah🇮🇶 Karbala 40%🇳🇪 Niamey 40%🇹🇷 Batman 38.9%🇪🇬 Cairo 34.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Akashi 100%🇰🇿 Aktobe 100%Al Hillah🇹🇷 Alanya 100%🇺🇸 Albany 100%🇲🇾 Alor Setar 100%🇷🇺 Angarsk 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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