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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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Kozhikode

Where Kozhikode 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 111 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇳 Koyilandy 23 km Nearest written profile 🇴🇲 Muscat 📖 2,293 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Kozhikode 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 & errands1,152 places mapped
09:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
61%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
13%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Food & drink858 places mapped
08:30–21:45
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7%
open past midnight
60%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
346
muggy days a year
334
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
228
umbrella days a year
101.9 m
of rain since 1981
6,380
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1970.9 km
to Barren Island
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:09
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.8 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
6,422
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKozhikode RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7% 230 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Cheyenne 7%🇦🇺 Gold Coast 7%🇲🇾 Johor Bahru 7%🇬🇧 Kidderminster 7%Kozhikode🇺🇦 Lviv 7%🇸🇪 Malmo 7%🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 7%🇺🇸 Olympia 7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇰🇭 Kampot 77 h🇯🇵 Kisarazu 77 h🇯🇵 Kishiwada 77 h🇺🇸 Knoxville 77 hKozhikode🇸🇰 Košice 77 h🇨🇳 Kunming 77 h🇺🇸 Livermore 77 h🇸🇮 Ljubljana 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.5% 367 of 1,878 🇨🇺 Trinidad 10.6%🇭🇺 Veszprém 10.6%🇬🇧 Bury St Edmunds 10.5%🇵🇭 Cebu City 10.5%Kozhikode🇬🇭 Kumasi 10.5%🇯🇵 Misawa 10.5%🇷🇴 Târgoviște 10.5%🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 10.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇬🇷 Kos 0%🇵🇱 Koszalin 0%🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 0%🇮🇳 Kottayam 0%Kozhikode🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 0%🇷🇸 Kragujevac 0%🇬🇭 Kumasi 0%🇬🇪 Kutaisi 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.3% 178 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Fukuyama 5.3%🇹🇷 Istanbul 5.3%🇯🇵 Kawagoe 5.3%🇯🇵 Kobe 5.3%Kozhikode🇯🇵 Misawa 5.3%🇷🇺 Ryazan 5.3%🇬🇧 Sheffield 5.3%🇬🇧 Swansea 5.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 61.3% 313 of 1,704 🇵🇱 Opole 61.6%🇪🇸 Valdemoro 61.5%🇭🇷 Zagreb 61.4%🇵🇾 Ciudad del Este 61.3%Kozhikode🇫🇷 Grenoble 61.1%🇫🇷 Chambéry 61%🇧🇪 Leuven 61%🇮🇹 Forlì 60.9%

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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