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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 8.4M · 7,837 venues mapped

Kuala Lumpur

Where Kuala Lumpur 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 27 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Kuala Lumpur in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇲🇾 Putrajaya 23 km Nearest written profile 🇲🇾 George Town 📖 294 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Kuala Lumpur 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 & drink7,837 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
11%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
11%
open 24/7
Shops & errands3,157 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
39%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
365
muggy days a year
2
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
288
umbrella days a year
112.1 m
of rain since 1981
4,456
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
352.5 km
to Singkut
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
19:10
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.3 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
4,180
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKuala Lumpur RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.2% 188 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Surgut 11.3%🇺🇸 York 11.3%🇪🇸 Ferrol 11.2%🇺🇸 Holland 11.2%Kuala Lumpur🇫🇷 Limoges 11.2%🇷🇺 Omsk 11.2%🇺🇸 Phoenix 11.2%🇮🇹 Pordenone 11.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 84 h🇮🇳 Kottayam 84 h🇮🇳 Koyilandy 84 h🇷🇺 Krasnodar 84 hKuala Lumpur🇯🇵 Kumagaya 84 h🇺🇦 Kyiv 84 h🇮🇹 Lido di Ostia 84 h🇺🇸 Lowell 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.7% 335 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Mangaluru 13.8%🇲🇿 Maputo 13.8%🇨🇦 White Rock 13.8%🇬🇧 Chelmsford 13.7%Kuala Lumpur🇬🇧 Oxford 13.7%🇷🇴 Sibiu 13.7%🇯🇵 Tsukuba 13.7%🇫🇷 Ajaccio 13.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 5.8% 326 of 1,878 🇲🇽 La Paz 5.9%🇧🇷 Macapá 5.9%🇺🇸 Santa Barbara 5.9%🇬🇧 Bristol 5.8%Kuala Lumpur🇦🇺 Melbourne 5.8%🇬🇧 York 5.8%🇬🇧 Bangor 5.7%🇬🇧 Bath 5.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 11.2% 119 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Hino 11.3%🇳🇵 Pokhara 11.3%🇷🇺 Surgut 11.3%🇺🇸 Henderson 11.2%Kuala Lumpur🇲🇦 Bouskoura 11.1%🇧🇯 Cotonou 11.1%🇮🇩 Semarang 11.1%🇮🇩 Seririt 11.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.2% 27 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Atlanta 97.2%🇺🇸 Boston 97.2%🇯🇵 Hiroshima 97.2%🇺🇸 Jacksonville 97.2%Kuala Lumpur🇺🇸 Norfolk 97.2%🇯🇵 Okayama 97.2%🇺🇸 Syracuse 97.2%🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 97.1%

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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