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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 88k · 1,690 venues mapped

Columbia

Where Columbia 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 15 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Spartanburg 134 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Miami 📖 918 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Columbia 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 & drink1,690 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
10%
open 24/7
Shops & errands513 places mapped
07:30–22:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
10%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
91
muggy days a year
2
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
132
umbrella days a year
53.3 m
of rain since 1981
4,453
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2213.2 km
to Chichon, El
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:19
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,424
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureColumbia RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.1% 219 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Tulum 8.2%🇺🇸 White Plains 8.2%🇫🇷 Bastia 8.1%🇺🇸 Bayonet Point 8.1%Columbia🇹🇼 Kaohsiung 8.1%🇲🇾 Kuching 8.1%🇺🇸 Lawrenceville 8.1%🇩🇪 Munich 8.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Birmingham 91 h🇺🇸 Bossier City 91 h🇨🇺 Camagüey 91 h🇲🇩 Chișinău 91 hColumbia🇺🇸 Cookeville 91 h🇺🇸 Dayton 91 h🇺🇸 Dearborn Heights 91 h🇺🇸 Detroit 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 33.2% 155 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Tucson 33.3%🇭🇰 Tuen Mun 33.3%🇹🇭 Ubon Ratchathani 33.3%🇯🇵 Yamagata 33.3%Columbia🇺🇸 Olathe 33.2%🇦🇺 Canberra 33.1%🇸🇦 Jeddah 33.1%🇺🇸 Spokane 33.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.4% 370 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Bataysk 1.4%🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte 1.4%🇺🇿 Bukhara 1.4%🇺🇸 Chester 1.4%Columbia🇺🇸 Conway 1.4%🇺🇸 Dearborn Heights 1.4%🇳🇱 Deventer 1.4%🇺🇸 El Paso 1.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10.2% 129 of 1,878 🇱🇦 Pakse 10.3%🇦🇷 San Miguel de Tucumán 10.3%🇮🇹 Savona 10.3%🇺🇸 Bridgeport 10.2%Columbia🇪🇬 Hurghada 10.2%🇷🇺 Kaluga 10.2%🇲🇲 Mawlamyine 10.2%🇹🇭 Pattaya 10.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.4% 15 of 1,704 🇯🇴 Amman 98.4%🇮🇶 Baghdad 98.4%🇬🇧 Basingstoke 98.4%🇷🇺 Belgorod 98.4%Columbia🇺🇦 Donetsk 98.4%🇯🇵 Kofu 98.4%🇺🇸 McAllen 98.4%🇰🇿 Atyrau 98.3%

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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