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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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🇧🇯 Benin · metro 2.6M · 727 venues mapped

Cotonou

Where Cotonou 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 48 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇳🇬 Lagos 108 km Nearest written profile 🇷🇼 Kigali 📖 3,205 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Cotonou 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 & drink727 places mapped
09:00–24:00
0006121824
25%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
94h
open per week
11%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
352
muggy days a year
176
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
235
umbrella days a year
59.7 m
of rain since 1981
4,737
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
767.5 km
to Basile, Pico
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.5 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
12,589
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCotonou RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 25% 65 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Armenia 25.6%🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 25.5%🇺🇸 Key West 25.5%🇨🇳 Changsha 25%Cotonou🇵🇰 Lahore 25%🇧🇭 Manama 25%🇺🇸 Terre Haute 24.7%🇹🇷 Fethiye 24.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 94.5 h 48 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Anapa 94.5 h🇺🇿 Asaka 94.5 h🇺🇸 Bentonville 94.5 h🇨🇳 Chongqing 94.5 hCotonou🇺🇸 Findlay 94.5 h🇪🇸 Huelva 94.5 h🇹🇷 Istanbul 94.5 h🇷🇺 Izhevsk 94.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.9% 333 of 1,878 🇯🇴 Amman 14%🇹🇭 Ko Samui 14%🇮🇹 Lucca 14%🇵🇹 Amora 13.9%Cotonou🇬🇧 Edinburgh 13.9%🇦🇷 La Plata 13.9%🇨🇦 Niagara Falls 13.9%🇵🇹 Setúbal 13.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Coimbatore 0%🇸🇻 Cojutepeque 0%🇬🇧 Coleraine 0%🇬🇷 Corfu 0%Cotonou🇬🇳 Coyah 0%🇷🇴 Craiova 0%🇧🇷 Criciúma 0%🇲🇽 Cuernavaca 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 11.1% 120 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Surgut 11.3%🇺🇸 Henderson 11.2%🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 11.2%🇲🇦 Bouskoura 11.1%Cotonou🇮🇩 Semarang 11.1%🇮🇩 Seririt 11.1%🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 11.1%🇺🇸 Blue Springs 11%

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.

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