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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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🇵🇱 Poland · metro 879k · 943 venues mapped

Katowice

Where Katowice 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 129 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 6 km Nearest written profile 🇵🇱 Krakow 📖 68 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Katowice does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands1,798 places mapped
06:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
54%
open on Sundays
97h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Food & drink943 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
4%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
141
umbrella days a year
32.1 m
of rain since 1981
390
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
865.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:43
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.4 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,135
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKatowice RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.2% 258 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Watsonville 4.3%🇬🇧 Basingstoke 4.2%🇬🇧 Bath 4.2%🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 4.2%Katowice🇧🇴 La Paz 4.2%🇨🇿 České Budějovice 4.2%🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte 4.1%🇩🇪 Bensheim 4.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 73 h 129 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Anchorage 73 h🇺🇸 Asheville 73 h🇨🇦 Fredericton 73 h🇬🇧 Grays 73 hKatowice🇺🇸 Lancaster 73 h🇨🇿 Olomouc 73 h🇬🇧 Peterborough 73 h🇪🇸 Talavera de la Reina 73 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7% 402 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Akita 7%🇩🇪 Berlin 7%🇩🇪 Heilbronn 7%🇩🇪 Jena 7%Katowice🇯🇵 Koriyama 7%🇯🇵 Kumamoto 7%🇧🇪 Roeselare 7%🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇮🇶 Karbala 0%🇸🇪 Karlstad 0%🇮🇳 Kasaragod 0%🇳🇵 Kathmandu 0%Katowice🇷🇺 Kemerovo 0%🇺🇸 Kenosha 0%🇺🇸 Key West 0%🇸🇩 Khartoum 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.9% 192 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Falkirk 3.9%🇺🇸 Greenwood 3.9%🇬🇧 Ipswich 3.9%🇷🇺 Kaliningrad 3.9%Katowice🇧🇴 La Paz 3.9%🇺🇸 Muncie 3.9%🇺🇸 Newport News 3.9%🇺🇸 Oshkosh 3.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 53.6% 356 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Albi 53.7%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 53.7%🇪🇸 Barcelona 53.6%🇫🇷 Besançon 53.6%Katowice🇵🇱 Warsaw 53.6%🇧🇪 Mechelen 53.4%🇫🇷 Troyes 53.1%🇳🇱 Hoorn 52.9%

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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