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The Anti-Awards

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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
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The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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Gelendzhik

Where Gelendzhik 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 28 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Novorossiysk 29 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇪 Tbilisi 📖 636 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink340 places mapped
09:00–23:40
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26%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands279 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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3%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
14%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
13
muggy days a year
2
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
130
umbrella days a year
37.2 m
of rain since 1981
915
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
375.9 km
to Elbrus
2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:51
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.6 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
11,576
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureGelendzhik RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 26% 61 of 1,878 🇬🇪 Batumi 26.2%🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 26.2%🇹🇷 Denizli 26.1%🇮🇹 San Giuseppe Vesuviano 26.1%Gelendzhik🇪🇸 Reus 25.7%🇹🇷 Alanya 25.6%🇨🇴 Armenia 25.6%🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 25.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 98 h 37 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Erie 98 h🇹🇷 Eskisehir 98 h🇺🇸 Fair Oaks 98 h🇨🇳 Fangshan 98 hGelendzhik🇺🇸 Greenwood 98 h🇹🇷 Gölbaşı 98 h🇿🇼 Harare 98 h🇺🇸 Huntington Station 98 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 1.4% 458 of 1,878 🇬🇪 Batumi 1.5%🇩🇰 Esbjerg 1.5%🇳🇱 Nijmegen 1.5%🇳🇱 Oss 1.5%Gelendzhik🇷🇺 Kislovodsk 1.4%🇫🇷 Belfort 1.3%🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 1.3%🇵🇱 Świnoujście 1.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Fethiye 0%🇦🇱 Fier 0%🇺🇸 Flint 0%🇵🇱 Gdynia 0%Gelendzhik🇷🇴 Giurgiu 0%🇵🇱 Gniezno 0%🇧🇷 Goiânia 0%🇵🇱 Gorzów Wielkopolski 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.1% 190 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Stamford 4.2%🇨🇦 Vancouver 4.2%🇬🇧 Warrington 4.2%🇨🇷 Cartago 4.1%Gelendzhik🇬🇧 Harrogate 4.1%🇬🇧 Leicester 4.1%🇺🇸 New Britain 4.1%🇸🇰 Nitra 4.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.1% 28 of 1,704 🇪🇬 Cairo 97.1%🇬🇧 Cannock 97.1%🇺🇸 Fargo 97.1%🇯🇵 Gamagori 97.1%Gelendzhik🇺🇸 Hamilton 97.1%🇬🇧 Northampton 97.1%🇺🇸 Spokane 97.1%🇯🇵 Tanabe 97.1%

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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