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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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Kota Kinabalu

Where Kota Kinabalu 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 67 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇧🇳 Bandar Seri Begawan 174 km Nearest written profile 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 📖 1,170 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Kota Kinabalu 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 & drink866 places mapped
09:00–22:00
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2%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
11%
take a midday break
12%
open 24/7
Shops & errands294 places mapped
06:00–24:00
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2%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
51%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
362
muggy days a year
2
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
286
umbrella days a year
121.6 m
of rain since 1981
352
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
905.5 km
to Cendres, Ile des
2.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:07
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.5 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
4,217
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKota Kinabalu RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.2% 278 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Poltava 2.3%🇭🇺 Pécs 2.3%🇧🇷 Araraquara 2.2%🇦🇱 Elbasan 2.2%Kota Kinabalu🇧🇪 La Louvière 2.2%🇹🇼 Miaoli 2.2%🇭🇺 Székesfehérvár 2.2%🇬🇧 Blantyre 2.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Kochi 84 h🇯🇵 Kofu 84 h🇮🇳 Kolkata 84 h🇬🇷 Kos 84 hKota Kinabalu🇮🇳 Kottayam 84 h🇮🇳 Koyilandy 84 h🇷🇺 Krasnodar 84 h🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 20.3% 271 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kisarazu 20.4%🇨🇦 Ottawa 20.4%🇺🇸 San Francisco 20.4%🇬🇧 Camberley 20.3%Kota Kinabalu🇬🇧 Lincoln 20.3%🇮🇹 Pordenone 20.3%🇸🇻 Cojutepeque 20.2%🇮🇹 Pisa 20.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 10.9% 281 of 1,878 🇵🇪 Pisco 11.1%🇺🇸 Chapel Hill 11%🇬🇧 Reading 11%🇩🇪 Bremen 10.9%Kota Kinabalu🇮🇳 Chennai 10.7%🇳🇿 Wellington 10.7%🇨🇳 Chengdu 10.5%🇨🇴 Manizales 10.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 12.3% 108 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Saga 12.5%🇰🇿 Astana 12.4%🇨🇦 Pickering 12.4%🇧🇷 Arujá 12.3%Kota Kinabalu🇧🇷 Cuiabá 12.2%🇦🇱 Tirana 12.2%🇧🇷 Goiânia 12.1%🇯🇴 Amman 12%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.2% 67 of 1,704 🇩🇰 Copenhagen 93.2%🇸🇳 Dakar 93.2%🇸🇪 Helsingborg 93.2%🇬🇧 Ipswich 93.2%Kota Kinabalu🇬🇧 Lancaster 93.2%🇨🇦 Montreal 93.2%🇲🇲 Sagaing 93.2%🇯🇵 Takaoka 93.2%

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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