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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 100k · 333 venues mapped

Dunwoody

Where Dunwoody 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 10 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Norcross 11 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Miami 📖 992 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Dunwoody 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 & drink333 places mapped
10:30–22:00
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
79h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands143 places mapped
06:00–23:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
112h
open per week
34%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
57
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
150
umbrella days a year
59.2 m
of rain since 1981
3,658
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1990.4 km
to Carrizozo
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:32
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,121
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDunwoody RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.1% 199 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Sherbrooke 10.2%🇪🇸 Benidorm 10.1%🇺🇸 Chapel Hill 10.1%🇺🇸 College Station 10.1%Dunwoody🇯🇵 Kanazawa 10.1%🇬🇦 Libreville 10.1%🇷🇺 Pyatigorsk 10.1%🇮🇸 Reykjavik 10.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 79 h 101 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Richmond 79.5 h🇮🇱 Eilat 79.2 h🇺🇸 Cheyenne 79 h🇺🇸 Draper 79 hDunwoody🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 79 h🇺🇸 Fresno 79 h🇱🇹 Kaunas 79 h🇭🇰 Ma On Shan 79 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 23.4% 243 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Aosta 23.5%🇮🇩 Mataram 23.5%🇺🇸 Tallahassee 23.5%🇮🇹 Tivoli 23.5%Dunwoody🇺🇸 Lansing 23.4%🇪🇸 Motril 23.4%🇪🇸 Almeria 23.3%🇭🇺 Debrecen 23.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.8% 346 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Crewe 3.9%🇬🇧 Redditch 3.9%🇺🇸 Sherwood 3.9%🇺🇸 Tallahassee 3.9%Dunwoody🇬🇧 Edinburgh 3.8%🇺🇸 Greensboro 3.8%🇲🇾 Johor Bahru 3.8%🇬🇦 Libreville 3.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.2% 189 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Winston-Salem 4.3%🇧🇷 Campo Grande 4.2%🇨🇦 Charlottetown 4.2%🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 4.2%Dunwoody🇺🇸 Findlay 4.2%🇧🇷 Londrina 4.2%🇪🇨 Manta 4.2%🇷🇺 Nalchik 4.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.9% 10 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Sapporo 99%🇷🇺 Vyborg 99%🇯🇵 Akita 98.9%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 98.9%Dunwoody🇿🇦 Durban 98.9%🇮🇩 Malang 98.9%🇺🇸 Phoenix 98.9%🇱🇾 Tripoli 98.9%

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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