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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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🇺🇸 United States · metro 76k · 725 venues mapped

Ann Arbor

Where Ann Arbor 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 38 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Canton 22 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 387 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Ann Arbor 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 & drink725 places mapped
10:00–22:00
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11%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
Shops & errands411 places mapped
06:00–22:15
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
112h
open per week
20%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
16
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
131
umbrella days a year
39.5 m
of rain since 1981
873
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1971 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:06
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.3 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
17,940
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAnn Arbor RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.1% 189 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Omsk 11.2%🇺🇸 Phoenix 11.2%🇮🇹 Pordenone 11.2%🇪🇸 Almuñécar 11.1%Ann Arbor🇨🇴 Bucaramanga 11.1%🇵🇷 Caguas 11.1%🇺🇸 Chattanooga 11.1%🇮🇹 Civitanova Marche 11.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Agoo 84 h🇸🇾 Aleppo 84 h🇩🇿 Algiers 84 h🇷🇺 Angarsk 84 hAnn Arbor🇺🇸 Appleton 84 h🇷🇴 Arad 84 h🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 84 h🇺🇸 Asbury Park 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 25.5% 223 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Oshawa 25.8%🇬🇧 Belfast 25.7%🇮🇹 Arezzo 25.6%🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 25.6%Ann Arbor🇨🇭 Lugano 25.5%🇮🇹 Rovereto 25.5%🇬🇧 Runcorn 25.5%🇵🇪 Trujillo 25.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.7% 367 of 1,878 🇸🇰 Trnava 1.8%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 1.8%🇬🇧 Wakefield 1.8%🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 1.7%Ann Arbor🇺🇸 Annapolis 1.7%🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 1.7%🇺🇸 Aurora 1.7%🇵🇱 Bydgoszcz 1.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.7% 224 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Newport 0.8%🇩🇪 Passau 0.8%🇩🇪 Remscheid 0.8%🇷🇴 Sibiu 0.8%Ann Arbor🇧🇦 Banja Luka 0.7%🇩🇪 Bensheim 0.7%🇪🇸 Bilbao 0.7%🇬🇧 Canterbury 0.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.1% 38 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Reading 96.2%🇺🇸 Rochester 96.2%🇬🇧 Swindon 96.2%🇹🇼 Taitung 96.2%Ann Arbor🇺🇸 Brockton 96.1%🇺🇸 Dearborn Heights 96.1%🇺🇸 Joliet 96.1%🇸🇦 Riyadh 96.1%

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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