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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 530k · 3,149 venues mapped

Edinburgh

Where Edinburgh 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 68 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Dunfermline 21 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇪 Dublin 📖 351 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Edinburgh 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 & drink3,149 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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15%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
Shops & errands989 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
102h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Culture574 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
23%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Services310 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
14%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
179
umbrella days a year
39 m
of rain since 1981
1
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
927.9 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:40
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.6 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,679
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureEdinburgh RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 15.2% 148 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Findlay 15.3%🇮🇹 Taranto 15.3%🇮🇹 Varese 15.3%🇮🇪 Dublin 15.2%Edinburgh🇨🇺 Havana 15.2%🇮🇹 Imperia 15.2%🇪🇸 Ourense 15.2%🇷🇺 Pushkin 15.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Cholula 63 h🇳🇿 Christchurch 63 h🇮🇪 Cork 63 h🇪🇨 Cuenca 63 hEdinburgh🇯🇵 Fukuyama 63 h🇮🇪 Galway 63 h🇯🇵 Gamagori 63 h🇪🇸 Girona 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.9% 333 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Ko Samui 14%🇮🇹 Lucca 14%🇵🇹 Amora 13.9%🇧🇯 Cotonou 13.9%Edinburgh🇦🇷 La Plata 13.9%🇨🇦 Niagara Falls 13.9%🇵🇹 Setúbal 13.9%🇹🇷 Eskisehir 13.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.8% 346 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Redditch 3.9%🇺🇸 Sherwood 3.9%🇺🇸 Tallahassee 3.9%🇺🇸 Dunwoody 3.8%Edinburgh🇺🇸 Greensboro 3.8%🇲🇾 Johor Bahru 3.8%🇬🇦 Libreville 3.8%🇸🇪 Norrköping 3.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.1% 220 of 1,878 🇭🇺 Budapest 1.1%🇦🇺 Canberra 1.1%🇩🇪 Coburg 1.1%🇸🇻 Cojutepeque 1.1%Edinburgh🇦🇹 Graz 1.1%🇺🇸 Greenville 1.1%🇩🇪 Görlitz 1.1%🇧🇪 Liège 1.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.1% 68 of 1,704 🇵🇭 Tarlac City 93.2%🇱🇦 Vientiane 93.2%🇻🇳 Đà Nẵng 93.2%🇬🇧 Bournemouth 93.1%Edinburgh🇬🇧 Exeter 93.1%🇬🇧 Harrogate 93.1%🇲🇽 Puebla 93.1%🇷🇺 Astrakhan 93%

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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