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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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🇨🇳 China · metro 6.4M · 968 venues mapped

Hangzhou

Where Hangzhou 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 1 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Hangzhou in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇨🇳 Suzhou 120 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇳 Shanghai 📖 161 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Hangzhou 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 & drink968 places mapped
09:45–22:00
0006121824
21%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
88h
open per week
Shops & errands407 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
18%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
114
muggy days a year
41
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
158
umbrella days a year
62.8 m
of rain since 1981
3,850
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
585.1 km
to Tatun Volcanic Group
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:03
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.1 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
6,936
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureHangzhou RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 20.9% 99 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Yuma 21.2%🇮🇹 Lecce 21.1%🇨🇺 Nuevitas 21.1%🇵🇰 Karachi 21%Hangzhou🇷🇺 Tambov 20.9%🇮🇶 Erbil 20.8%🇺🇸 Fargo 20.8%🇺🇸 Flint 20.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 87.5 h 72 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Worcester 88 h🇺🇸 Allen 87.5 h🇮🇳 Coimbatore 87.5 h🇷🇴 Constanța 87.5 hHangzhou🇮🇳 Jaipur 87.5 h🇯🇵 Kagoshima 87.5 h🇷🇺 Kaliningrad 87.5 h🇭🇳 La Lima 87.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 24.4% 233 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Windsor 24.6%🇨🇦 Edmonton 24.5%🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 24.5%🇵🇱 Tarnów 24.5%Hangzhou🇺🇸 Norristown 24.4%🇫🇷 Bastia 24.3%🇨🇴 Cartagena 24.3%🇺🇸 Logan 24.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.3% 361 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Camarillo 2.3%🇮🇪 Dublin 2.3%🇺🇸 Franklin 2.3%🇬🇧 Gillingham 2.3%Hangzhou🇪🇬 Hurghada 2.3%🇻🇳 Huế 2.3%🇮🇶 Kirkuk 2.3%🇺🇸 Knoxville 2.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Göttingen 0%🇳🇱 Haarlem 0%🇯🇵 Hamamatsu 0%🇩🇪 Hamm 0%Hangzhou🇬🇧 Hastings 0%🇳🇱 Heemskerk 0%🇳🇱 Heerlen 0%🇩🇪 Hennigsdorf 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Great Yarmouth 100%🇺🇸 Greenwood 100%🇯🇵 Hachioji 100%🇯🇵 Hamamatsu 100%Hangzhou🇹🇭 Hat Yai 100%🇺🇸 Henderson 100%🇯🇵 Hirosaki 100%🇹🇯 Hisor 100%

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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