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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
Everything else3
The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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🇺🇸 United States · metro 71k · 1,106 venues mapped

Asbury Park

Where Asbury Park 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 56 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Piscataway 45 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Montreal 📖 589 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Asbury Park 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 & drink1,106 places mapped
09:00–22:00
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6%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands407 places mapped
07:00–23:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
34%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
59
muggy days a year
3
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
139
umbrella days a year
56.4 m
of rain since 1981
4
days over 30 °C, of 16,628
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2717.1 km
to Saba
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:34
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,739
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAsbury Park RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.5% 235 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Nanaimo 6.6%🇺🇦 Odesa 6.6%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 6.6%🇪🇬 Alexandria 6.5%Asbury Park🇺🇸 Bethlehem 6.5%🇵🇭 Cebu City 6.5%🇰🇷 Changwon 6.5%🇬🇧 Falkirk 6.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 84 h🇺🇸 Appleton 84 h🇷🇴 Arad 84 h🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 84 hAsbury Park🇮🇳 Attingal 84 h🇧🇳 Bandar Seri Begawan 84 h🇮🇩 Bandung 84 h🇹🇷 Bandırma 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 35.9% 130 of 1,878 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 36.1%🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 36.1%🇺🇸 Birmingham 36%🇦🇺 Toowoomba 36%Asbury Park🇺🇸 Lawrence 35.9%🇺🇸 Southgate 35.9%🇺🇸 Sarasota 35.8%🇺🇸 Idaho Falls 35.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1% 374 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Tambov 1.1%🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 1.1%🇺🇸 Wichita 1.1%🇷🇺 Anapa 1%Asbury Park🇺🇸 Chicago 1%🇺🇸 Detroit 1%🇬🇧 Glasgow 1%🇨🇺 Havana 1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.9% 202 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Vannes 3%🇭🇺 Veszprém 3%🇺🇸 York 3%🇺🇸 Appleton 2.9%Asbury Park🇵🇹 Aveiro 2.9%🇨🇦 Barrie 2.9%🇺🇸 Bethlehem 2.9%🇮🇹 Cagliari 2.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94.3% 56 of 1,704 🇪🇨 Manta 94.4%🇺🇸 Pittsburgh 94.4%🇲🇲 Yangon 94.4%🇩🇰 Aalborg 94.3%Asbury Park🇧🇾 Brest 94.3%🇷🇴 Bucharest 94.3%🇺🇦 Chernivtsi 94.3%🇺🇸 Cleveland 94.3%

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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