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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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🇲🇾 Malaysia · metro 421k · 417 venues mapped

Kota Bharu

Where Kota Bharu places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is never close at all, where it ranks 41 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇲🇾 Alor Setar 208 km Nearest written profile 🇲🇾 George Town 📖 225 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Kota Bharu 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 & drink417 places mapped
09:00–21:30
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
23%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
365
muggy days a year
315
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
268
umbrella days a year
113.3 m
of rain since 1981
6,026
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
523.3 km
to Singkut
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
19:02
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.5 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
4,473
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKota Bharu RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.1% 209 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Coburg 9.1%🇬🇧 Durham 9.1%🇺🇸 Franklin 9.1%🇫🇷 Grenoble 9.1%Kota Bharu🇺🇸 Pittsburgh 9.1%🇮🇹 Ravenna 9.1%🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 9.1%🇪🇸 San Fernando 9.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57 h 193 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Hagen 57 h🇩🇪 Hamm 57 h🇪🇸 Jaén 57 h🇩🇪 Koblenz 57 hKota Bharu🇪🇨 Latacunga 57 h🇸🇪 Lund 57 h🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 57 h🇯🇵 Matsumoto 57 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.2% 290 of 1,878 🇬🇷 Athens 18.2%🇨🇦 Barrie 18.2%🇫🇷 Creil 18.2%🇬🇧 King's Lynn 18.2%Kota Bharu🇦🇺 Langwarrin 18.2%🇪🇸 Ourense 18.2%🇮🇩 Pekanbaru 18.2%🇮🇹 Pesaro 18.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Ko Samui 0%🇹🇷 Konya 0%🇬🇷 Kos 0%🇵🇱 Koszalin 0%Kota Bharu🇮🇳 Kottayam 0%🇮🇳 Kozhikode 0%🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 0%🇷🇸 Kragujevac 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 22.7% 41 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Niigata 23.1%🇬🇳 Coyah 22.9%🇸🇦 Jeddah 22.9%🇰🇼 Kuwait City 22.9%Kota Bharu🇻🇳 Thái Nguyên 22.7%🇯🇵 Kofu 22.4%🇺🇸 Las Vegas 22.1%🇴🇲 Seeb 21.9%

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.

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