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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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🇷🇼 Rwanda · metro 1.6M · 399 venues mapped

Kigali

Where Kigali 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 58 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Kigali in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇹🇿 Mwanza 322 km Nearest written profile 🇰🇪 Nairobi 📖 755 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Jul, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink399 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
11%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
14%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
209
umbrella days a year
53 m
of rain since 1981
492
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
2
volcanoes within 100 km
83.8 km
to Karisimbi
2.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:01
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.2 h
longest day of the year
16
public holidays, 2024
9,497
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKigali RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.7% 193 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Tokyo 10.8%🇮🇹 Verona 10.8%🇳🇱 Arnhem 10.7%🇧🇬 Burgas 10.7%Kigali🇺🇸 Las Cruces 10.7%🇺🇸 Stillwater 10.7%🇺🇸 Eugene 10.6%🇺🇸 San Marcos 10.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Jakarta 91 h🇮🇷 Karaj 91 h🇺🇸 Kenosha 91 h🇺🇸 Key West 91 hKigali🇮🇶 Kirkuk 91 h🇹🇷 Konya 91 h🇷🇺 Krasnoyarsk 91 h🇺🇸 Lacey 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 28.6% 194 of 1,878 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi 28.8%🇺🇸 Milwaukee 28.8%🇺🇸 Provo 28.8%🇪🇸 Huelva 28.6%Kigali🇺🇸 Simi Valley 28.6%🇭🇰 Tsuen Wan 28.6%🇨🇳 Zhujiajiao 28.6%🇺🇸 Austin 28.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.6% 348 of 1,878 🇻🇳 Đà Nẵng 3.7%🇬🇧 Basildon 3.6%🇵🇭 Cebu City 3.6%🇰🇷 Daejeon 3.6%Kigali🇺🇸 Merced 3.6%🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 3.6%🇨🇦 Vancouver 3.6%🇺🇸 Bakersfield 3.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 14.3% 93 of 1,878 🇰🇷 Daejeon 14.5%🇺🇸 Valdosta 14.5%🇨🇲 Yaoundé 14.5%🇹🇯 Hisor 14.3%Kigali🇪🇨 Latacunga 14.3%🇮🇩 Medan 14.3%🇮🇩 Rangkasbitung 14.3%🇸🇦 Riyadh 14.3%

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.

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