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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 54k · 211 venues mapped

Blue Springs

Where Blue Springs 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 🇺🇸 Kansas City 27 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Austin 📖 1,023 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Blue Springs 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 & drink211 places mapped
07:30–22:22
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
11%
open 24/7
Shops & errands68 places mapped
06:00–22:30
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0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
119h
open per week
27%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
53
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
109
umbrella days a year
47.6 m
of rain since 1981
2,619
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1098.2 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:58
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.9 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
17,190
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBlue Springs RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.5% 215 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Vyborg 8.6%🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 8.5%🇺🇸 Aurora 8.5%🇨🇳 Beijing 8.5%Blue Springs🇺🇸 Camarillo 8.5%🇬🇧 Camberley 8.5%🇺🇸 Chicago Heights 8.5%🇲🇽 Cholula 8.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 98.4 h 35 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Yuma 99.5 h🇹🇷 Bursa 99 h🇺🇸 Saint Joseph 99 h🇺🇸 Bakersfield 98.8 hBlue Springs🇺🇸 Lake Charles 98.2 h🇪🇹 Addis Ababa 98 h🇰🇿 Aktobe 98 h🇺🇸 Albany 98 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 39% 105 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Vacaville 39.2%🇺🇸 Aurora 39.1%🇧🇸 Nassau 39.1%🇺🇸 Norman 39.1%Blue Springs🇺🇸 Chicago 39%🇦🇱 Tirana 39%🇺🇸 Baltimore 38.9%🇮🇩 Gresik 38.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Bila Tserkva 0%🇬🇧 Blackburn 0%🇮🇪 Blanchardstown 0%🇬🇧 Blantyre 0%Blue Springs🇺🇸 Boardman 0%🇹🇷 Bodrum 0%🇺🇸 Bossier City 0%🇲🇦 Bouskoura 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 11% 121 of 1,878 🇧🇯 Cotonou 11.1%🇮🇩 Semarang 11.1%🇮🇩 Seririt 11.1%🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 11.1%Blue Springs🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 11%🇯🇵 Nagoya 11%🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 11%🇵🇭 Agoo 10.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Bayonet Point 100%🇺🇸 Bentonville 100%🇺🇦 Bila Tserkva 100%🇬🇧 Blackburn 100%Blue Springs🇺🇸 Boardman 100%🇹🇷 Bodrum 100%🇺🇸 Bossier City 100%🇺🇸 Bozeman 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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