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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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SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇲🇾 Malaysia · metro 757k · 2,429 venues mapped

George Town

Where George Town 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.

This city has a full profile Read George Town in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇲🇾 Alor Setar 79 km Nearest written profile 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 📖 294 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else George Town 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 & drink2,429 places mapped
09:30–22:00
0006121824
7%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
11%
take a midday break
12%
open 24/7
Shops & errands827 places mapped
08:00–22:30
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
41%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
364
muggy days a year
71
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
299
umbrella days a year
105 m
of rain since 1981
4,794
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
315 km
to Singkut
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
19:11
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.4 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
4,468
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureGeorge Town RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.6% 234 of 1,878 🇭🇹 Port-au-Prince 6.7%🇺🇸 Tacoma 6.7%🇹🇷 Trabzon 6.7%🇵🇭 Dumaguete 6.6%George Town🇳🇱 Heerlen 6.6%🇮🇹 Imola 6.6%🇬🇧 Leicester 6.6%🇺🇸 Medford 6.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Faro 70 h🇯🇵 Fuji 70 h🇵🇱 Gdansk 70 h🇵🇱 Gdynia 70 hGeorge Town🇬🇧 Glasgow 70 h🇬🇧 Gloucester 70 h🇵🇱 Gorzów Wielkopolski 70 h🇭🇺 Gyor 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.6% 366 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Osaki 10.7%🇱🇹 Vilnius 10.7%🇵🇱 Zakopane 10.7%🇹🇯 Dushanbe 10.6%George Town🇬🇧 Hinckley 10.6%🇹🇭 Khon Kaen 10.6%🇲🇰 Skopje 10.6%🇪🇸 Toledo 10.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 11.1% 279 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Guangzhou 11.2%🇩🇪 Halle (Saale) 11.2%🇬🇧 St Albans 11.2%🇬🇧 Taunton 11.2%George Town🇦🇷 La Plata 11.1%🇧🇷 Pelotas 11.1%🇵🇪 Pisco 11.1%🇺🇸 Chapel Hill 11%
Never close at all% open 24/7 12.5% 106 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Tijuana 12.7%🇮🇳 Attingal 12.5%🇷🇺 Belgorod 12.5%🇨🇳 Fangshan 12.5%George Town🇯🇵 Iizuka 12.5%🇯🇵 Kochi 12.5%🇹🇷 Nevşehir 12.5%🇨🇦 Oshawa 12.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.8% 61 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Colchester 93.8%🇬🇧 Coleraine 93.8%🇵🇭 Dumaguete 93.8%🇺🇸 Easton 93.8%George Town🇺🇸 Greenville 93.8%🇲🇾 Kuching 93.8%🇺🇸 Mount Vernon 93.8%🇺🇸 Palm Bay 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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