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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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🇷🇸 Serbia · metro 1.2M · 3,705 venues mapped

Belgrade

Where Belgrade places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 58 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Belgrade in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇷🇸 Novi Sad 70 km Nearest written profile 🇲🇪 Podgorica 📖 280 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink3,705 places mapped
09:00–23:00
0006121824
14%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
Shops & errands2,861 places mapped
07:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
94h
open per week
13%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
115
umbrella days a year
29.3 m
of rain since 1981
2,147
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
662.1 km
to Vesuvius
3
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:00
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.6 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
12,836
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBelgrade RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.5% 155 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Norfolk 14.7%🇵🇹 Faro 14.6%🇮🇳 Mumbai 14.6%🇨🇦 Quebec 14.6%Belgrade🇫🇷 Caen 14.5%🇯🇵 Hakodate 14.5%🇮🇷 Mashhad 14.5%🇨🇦 Montreal 14.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Bataysk 91 h🇺🇸 Baton Rouge 91 h🇬🇪 Batumi 91 h🇷🇺 Belgorod 91 hBelgrade🇺🇸 Bethlehem 91 h🇳🇵 Bharatpur 91 h🇺🇸 Billings 91 h🇺🇸 Birmingham 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.5% 337 of 1,878 🇪🇸 San Fernando 13.6%🇩🇿 Sidi Moussa 13.6%🇵🇭 Tagaytay 13.6%🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 13.6%Belgrade🇪🇸 Bilbao 13.5%🇮🇷 Shiraz 13.5%🇬🇧 Bath 13.4%🇮🇩 Jakarta 13.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇬🇪 Batumi 0%🇺🇸 Bayonet Point 0%🇱🇧 Beirut 0%🇷🇺 Belgorod 0%Belgrade🇧🇿 Belize City 0%🇺🇸 Bethlehem 0%🇳🇵 Bharatpur 0%🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.4% 207 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Vigo 2.5%🇬🇧 Worcester 2.5%🇵🇱 Świdnica 2.5%🇵🇱 Świnoujście 2.5%Belgrade🇺🇸 Fort Collins 2.4%🇱🇰 Galle 2.4%🇺🇸 Lawrence 2.4%🇩🇪 Lippstadt 2.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 86.5% 126 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Komatsu 86.7%🇲🇽 Mexicali 86.7%🇺🇸 Santa Fe 86.7%🇬🇧 Barnsley 86.6%Belgrade🇬🇧 Stafford 86.5%🇫🇷 Sète 86.5%🇬🇧 Leeds 86.3%🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 86.3%

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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