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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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🇵🇭 Philippines · metro 206k · 476 venues mapped

Dumaguete

Where Dumaguete 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 61 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇵🇭 Cebu City 129 km Nearest written profile 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 📖 1,741 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Dumaguete 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 & drink476 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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7%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands242 places mapped
08:00–21:00
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2%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
12%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
361
muggy days a year
123
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
234
umbrella days a year
68.6 m
of rain since 1981
3,907
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
124.2 km
to Kanlaon
35
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:33
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.7 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
4,656
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDumaguete RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.6% 234 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Point Cook 6.7%🇭🇹 Port-au-Prince 6.7%🇺🇸 Tacoma 6.7%🇹🇷 Trabzon 6.7%Dumaguete🇲🇾 George Town 6.6%🇳🇱 Heerlen 6.6%🇮🇹 Imola 6.6%🇬🇧 Leicester 6.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇨🇷 Cartago 77 h🇺🇸 Chapel Hill 77 h🇺🇸 Coeur d'Alene 77 h🇭🇺 Debrecen 77 hDumaguete🇲🇦 Essaouira 77 h🇺🇸 Grand Junction 77 h🇺🇸 Greensboro 77 h🇮🇩 Gresik 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 21.3% 261 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Livorno 21.4%🇮🇹 Milan 21.4%🇷🇴 Târgu Mureș 21.4%🇲🇽 Valladolid 21.4%Dumaguete🇮🇹 Imperia 21.2%🇮🇹 Modena 21.1%🇮🇶 Mosul 21.1%🇮🇳 Visakhapatnam 21.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.5% 359 of 1,878 🇧🇴 Tarija 2.6%🇺🇸 Allen 2.5%🇪🇨 Ambato 2.5%🇨🇿 Brno 2.5%Dumaguete🇬🇧 Plymouth 2.5%🇮🇳 Ponnani 2.5%🇮🇸 Reykjavik 2.5%🇲🇲 Sagaing 2.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.9% 182 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Ponnani 5%🇱🇦 Vientiane 5%🇷🇺 Yoshkar-Ola 5%🇺🇸 Brandon 4.9%Dumaguete🇺🇸 Lake Ronkonkoma 4.9%🇸🇻 San Salvador 4.9%🇹🇲 Ashgabat 4.8%🇺🇸 Atlantic City 4.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.8% 61 of 1,704 🇷🇴 Târgoviște 93.9%🇺🇸 Atascocita 93.8%🇬🇧 Colchester 93.8%🇬🇧 Coleraine 93.8%Dumaguete🇺🇸 Easton 93.8%🇲🇾 George Town 93.8%🇺🇸 Greenville 93.8%🇲🇾 Kuching 93.8%

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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