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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 71k · 233 venues mapped

Dothan

Where Dothan 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 🇺🇸 Panama City 121 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Miami 📖 790 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Dothan 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 & drink233 places mapped
06:00–23:00
0006121824
11%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
102h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands74 places mapped
07:30–21:45
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
27%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
120
muggy days a year
6
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
144
umbrella days a year
64.6 m
of rain since 1981
4,712
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1718.7 km
to San Martin
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:43
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.2 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,004
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDothan RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.8% 192 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Maidstone 10.9%🇺🇸 South Bend 10.9%🇺🇸 Temecula 10.9%🇺🇸 Virginia Beach 10.9%Dothan🇺🇸 Huntsville 10.8%🇺🇸 Iowa City 10.8%🇬🇧 Lowestoft 10.8%🇵🇱 Lublin 10.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 102.2 h 24 of 1,878 🇸🇦 Dammam 103.2 h🇺🇸 Florence 103 h🇺🇸 Martinez 103 h🇧🇭 Manama 102.5 hDothan🇳🇪 Niamey 102 h🇰🇬 Bishkek 101.8 h🇮🇳 Agra 101.5 h🇹🇷 Denizli 101.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 48% 47 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Boise 48.5%🇺🇸 Lubbock 48.5%🇺🇸 Abilene 48.4%🇺🇸 Sandusky 48.1%Dothan🇺🇸 Fall River 47.7%🇺🇸 Atlantic City 47.6%🇺🇸 Memphis 47.6%🇹🇿 Mwanza 47.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.9% 335 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Zhaoqing 5%🇺🇸 Bend 4.9%🇪🇨 Cuenca 4.9%🇧🇷 Cuiabá 4.9%Dothan🇺🇸 Logan 4.9%🇺🇸 Raleigh 4.9%🇸🇻 San Salvador 4.9%🇹🇳 Tunis 4.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7.8% 153 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Sherwood 7.9%🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 7.9%🇺🇸 Auburn 7.8%🇵🇾 Ciudad del Este 7.8%Dothan🇺🇸 Florence 7.8%🇷🇴 Giurgiu 7.8%🇷🇺 Izhevsk 7.8%🇨🇦 Maple Ridge 7.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Davenport 100%🇹🇷 Denizli 100%🇶🇦 Doha 100%🇬🇧 Doncaster 100%Dothan🇬🇧 Eastleigh 100%🇺🇸 Eau Claire 100%🇺🇸 Erie 100%🇺🇸 Fair Oaks 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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