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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 Kingdom · metro 158k · 1,273 venues mapped

Dundee

Where Dundee 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 116 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Perth 29 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇪 Dublin 📖 407 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Dundee 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 & drink1,273 places mapped
10:00–21:00
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9%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
Shops & errands546 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Culture486 places mapped
10:00–17:00
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3%
open past midnight
34%
open on Sundays
35h
open per week
Services178 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
22%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
175
umbrella days a year
44 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
955.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:35
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.7 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,661
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDundee RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.6% 214 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Albuquerque 8.6%🇮🇹 Anzio 8.6%🇧🇷 Aracaju 8.6%🇺🇸 Buffalo 8.6%Dundee🇵🇱 Gdansk 8.6%🇩🇪 Göppingen 8.6%🇲🇾 Ipoh 8.6%🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 8.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 60 h 181 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Bari 60 h🇧🇷 Belém 60 h🇦🇹 Bregenz 60 h🇩🇪 Dortmund 60 hDundee🇯🇵 Echizen 60 h🇩🇪 Essen 60 h🇪🇸 Gandia 60 h🇩🇪 Hamburg 60 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 14.5% 327 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Bournemouth 14.6%🇶🇦 Doha 14.6%🇭🇺 Pécs 14.6%🇬🇧 Chester-le-Street 14.5%Dundee🇵🇱 Przemyśl 14.5%🇲🇽 Toluca 14.5%🇬🇧 Wishaw 14.5%🇹🇷 Istanbul 14.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 5.6% 328 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Pekanbaru 5.7%🇮🇳 Pune 5.7%🇬🇧 Stevenage 5.7%🇹🇼 Toufen 5.7%Dundee🇻🇳 Phú Quốc 5.6%🇺🇸 Pleasanton 5.6%🇬🇧 Bournemouth 5.5%🇺🇸 Bridgeport 5.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.2% 209 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Chon Buri 2.2%🇪🇨 Cuenca 2.2%🇬🇧 Derby 2.2%🇺🇸 Detroit 2.2%Dundee🇺🇸 Grand Junction 2.2%🇺🇸 Holland 2.2%🇨🇭 Locarno 2.2%🇬🇧 Lowestoft 2.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 87.7% 116 of 1,704 🇮🇳 Chennai 87.8%🇬🇧 Elland 87.8%🇬🇧 Kidderminster 87.8%🇺🇸 Salem 87.8%Dundee🇬🇧 York 87.7%🇸🇪 Stockholm 87.6%🇬🇧 Bury St Edmunds 87.5%🇧🇷 Chapecó 87.5%

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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