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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 70k · 1,445 venues mapped

Brandon

Where Brandon 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 29 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Tampa 17 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Miami 📖 318 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jan, Apr, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,445 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
16%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
93h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands555 places mapped
06:00–23:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
119h
open per week
36%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
172
muggy days a year
76
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
170
umbrella days a year
60.9 m
of rain since 1981
4,647
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1557.7 km
to Yojoa, Lago
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:39
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.9 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,213
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBrandon RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 15.8% 142 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Trapani 16%🇺🇸 Bakersfield 15.9%🇰🇷 Busan 15.9%🇫🇷 Lille 15.9%Brandon🇮🇹 Cervia 15.8%🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 15.8%🇮🇹 Siena 15.8%🇧🇷 São Luís 15.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 93 h 52 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Riverside 93.5 h🇺🇸 Temecula 93.5 h🇺🇸 Akron 93 h🇺🇸 Alafaya 93 hBrandon🇿🇦 Centurion 93 h🇬🇷 Chania 93 h🇺🇸 Duncanville 93 h🇺🇸 Edmond 93 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 41.7% 82 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Albuquerque 42.1%🇺🇸 Muncie 42.1%🇺🇸 Fort Wayne 41.9%🇺🇸 Florence 41.8%Brandon🇺🇸 West Haven 41.7%🇺🇸 Manchester 41.5%🇻🇳 Ninh Bình 41.5%🇲🇽 Nuevo Laredo 41.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.3% 371 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Sunderland 1.4%🇨🇿 České Budějovice 1.4%🇱🇹 Šiauliai 1.4%🇺🇸 Boston 1.3%Brandon🇭🇺 Budapest 1.3%🇺🇸 Columbus 1.3%🇿🇦 Diepsloot 1.3%🇨🇦 Edmonton 1.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.9% 182 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Montreal 5%🇮🇳 Ponnani 5%🇱🇦 Vientiane 5%🇷🇺 Yoshkar-Ola 5%Brandon🇵🇭 Dumaguete 4.9%🇺🇸 Lake Ronkonkoma 4.9%🇸🇻 San Salvador 4.9%🇹🇲 Ashgabat 4.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97% 29 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Northampton 97.1%🇺🇸 Spokane 97.1%🇯🇵 Tanabe 97.1%🇳🇵 Bharatpur 97%Brandon🇷🇺 Cherepovets 97%🇺🇦 Dnipro 97%🇺🇸 Indianapolis 97%🇬🇧 Loughborough 97%

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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