athens.taipei The Atlas of City Experiences
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 61k · 1,840 venues mapped

Glen Burnie

Where Glen Burnie 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 22 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Baltimore 14 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 556 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Glen Burnie 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 & drink1,840 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
11%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
93h
open per week
Shops & errands685 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
12%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
47
muggy days a year
2
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
124
umbrella days a year
50.3 m
of rain since 1981
2,238
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2600.6 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:47
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.9 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,632
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureGlen Burnie RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.9% 191 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Pontefract 11%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 11%🇺🇸 West Haven 11%🇷🇴 Craiova 10.9%Glen Burnie🇳🇱 Helmond 10.9%🇨🇦 Kitchener 10.9%🇺🇸 Lake in the Hills 10.9%🇬🇧 Maidstone 10.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 93 h 52 of 1,878 🇿🇦 Centurion 93 h🇬🇷 Chania 93 h🇺🇸 Duncanville 93 h🇺🇸 Edmond 93 hGlen Burnie🇬🇹 Guatemala City 93 h🇺🇸 Irving 93 h🇺🇸 Jacksonville Beach 93 h🇺🇸 Laurel 93 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 42.6% 74 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Reno 43.1%🇺🇸 Syracuse 43.1%🇺🇸 Worcester 42.9%🇺🇸 Dale City 42.7%Glen Burnie🇺🇸 North Richland Hills 42.5%🇺🇸 Killeen 42.4%🇺🇸 Panama City 42.4%🇺🇸 Huntington 42.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.7% 377 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Bloomington 0.7%🇳🇱 Breda 0.7%🇪🇬 Cairo 0.7%🇺🇸 Florence 0.7%Glen Burnie🇳🇱 Helmond 0.7%🇺🇸 Huntington Station 0.7%🇺🇬 Kampala 0.7%🇨🇦 Kitchener 0.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.5% 206 of 1,878 🇧🇷 São Carlos 2.6%🇦🇹 Bregenz 2.5%🇲🇪 Budva 2.5%🇺🇸 Cleveland 2.5%Glen Burnie🇺🇸 Kenosha 2.5%🇺🇸 Layton 2.5%🇺🇸 Livermore 2.5%🇺🇸 Morgantown 2.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.7% 22 of 1,704 🇮🇩 Bandung 97.7%🇰🇬 Bishkek 97.7%🇿🇦 Centurion 97.7%🇺🇸 Denver 97.7%Glen Burnie🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 97.7%🇺🇸 Lynn 97.7%🇷🇺 Makhachkala 97.7%🇹🇷 Ankara 97.6%

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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