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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 Kingdom · metro 72k · 394 venues mapped

Blantyre

Where Blantyre places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is never close at all, where it ranks 38 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 East Kilbride 6 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇪 Dublin 📖 307 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Blantyre 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 & drink394 places mapped
08:30–23:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
23%
open 24/7
Shops & errands232 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
225
umbrella days a year
61.8 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
961.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:45
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.6 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,736
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBlantyre RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.1% 279 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 2.2%🇧🇪 La Louvière 2.2%🇹🇼 Miaoli 2.2%🇭🇺 Székesfehérvár 2.2%Blantyre🇨🇿 Hradec Králové 2.1%🇧🇷 Londrina 2.1%🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 2.1%🇳🇦 Windhoek 2.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Torrevieja 77.2 h🇬🇧 Basingstoke 77 h🇬🇧 Belfast 77 h🇺🇸 Bend 77 hBlantyre🇺🇸 Boston 77 h🇺🇸 Bozeman 77 h🇺🇸 Campbell 77 h🇨🇴 Cartagena 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.4% 408 of 1,878 🇵🇰 Islamabad 6.5%🇬🇷 Rethymno 6.5%🇸🇪 Uppsala 6.5%🇩🇪 Bielefeld 6.4%Blantyre🇩🇪 Chemnitz 6.4%🇰🇷 Daejeon 6.4%🇷🇺 Kaliningrad 6.4%🇵🇹 Lagos 6.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 0%🇺🇦 Bila Tserkva 0%🇬🇧 Blackburn 0%🇮🇪 Blanchardstown 0%Blantyre🇺🇸 Blue Springs 0%🇺🇸 Boardman 0%🇹🇷 Bodrum 0%🇺🇸 Bossier City 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 23.4% 38 of 1,878 🇵🇰 Lahore 25%🇭🇰 Tai Po 25%🇮🇶 Erbil 24.7%🇨🇳 Guangzhou 23.6%Blantyre🇨🇺 Camagüey 23.1%🇮🇳 Chandigarh 23.1%🇯🇵 Kagoshima 23.1%🇯🇵 Niigata 23.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95.7% 42 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Reading 95.8%🇺🇸 Yakima 95.8%🇬🇧 Aberdeen 95.7%🇵🇹 Albufeira 95.7%Blantyre🇲🇩 Chișinău 95.7%🇬🇧 Hinckley 95.7%🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 95.7%🇹🇭 Khon Kaen 95.7%

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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