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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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The index

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CEE & Balkans16
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East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇻🇳 Vietnam · metro 5.0M · 588 venues mapped

Hanoi

Where Hanoi places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 27 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Hanoi in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇻🇳 Thái Nguyên 63 km Nearest written profile 🇻🇳 Đà Nẵng 📖 606 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink588 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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3%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
102h
open per week
18%
open 24/7
Shops & errands445 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
17%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
221
muggy days a year
94
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
177
umbrella days a year
65.5 m
of rain since 1981
7,883
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
473.7 km
to Hainan Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:21
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.4 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
5,987
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureHanoi RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.9% 271 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Albufeira 2.9%🇺🇿 Bukhara 2.9%🇭🇺 Debrecen 2.9%🇺🇦 Donetsk 2.9%Hanoi🇹🇯 Hisor 2.9%🇯🇵 Kobe 2.9%🇲🇽 Mexicali 2.9%🇲🇽 Morelia 2.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 101.5 h 27 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Agra 101.5 h🇹🇷 Denizli 101.5 h🇹🇷 Gölcük 101.5 h🇹🇳 Hammamet 101.5 hHanoi🇬🇷 Ioannina 101.5 h🇸🇩 Khartoum 101.5 h🇻🇳 Ninh Bình 101.5 h🇺🇸 Phoenix 101.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 20.6% 268 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Locarno 20.7%🇨🇦 Nanaimo 20.7%🇨🇦 Regina 20.7%🇪🇸 Granollers 20.6%Hanoi🇬🇧 Harrogate 20.5%🇬🇧 London 20.5%🇨🇴 Riohacha 20.5%🇸🇰 Banská Bystrica 20.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Gölcük 0%🇳🇱 Haarlem 0%🇮🇱 Haifa 0%🇺🇸 Hamilton 0%Hanoi🇨🇳 Harbin 0%🇹🇭 Hat Yai 0%🇺🇸 Hazel Park 0%🇳🇱 Heemskerk 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 17.6% 69 of 1,878 🇦🇪 Dubai 17.9%🇮🇩 Gresik 17.8%🇸🇾 Aleppo 17.6%🇺🇦 Bila Tserkva 17.6%Hanoi🇰🇿 Oral 17.4%🇷🇺 Pskov 17.4%🇺🇸 Martinez 17.3%🇳🇮 Granada 17.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.3% 66 of 1,704 🇧🇷 Araraquara 93.3%🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 93.3%🇺🇸 Champaign 93.3%🇬🇧 Cheltenham 93.3%Hanoi🇫🇮 Helsinki 93.3%🇧🇾 Hrodna 93.3%🇺🇸 Lynchburg 93.3%🇺🇸 Palm Desert 93.3%

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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