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The Anti-Awards

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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
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The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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🇰🇼 Kuwait · metro 3.7M · 1,346 venues mapped

Kuwait City

Where Kuwait City 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇸🇦 Dammam 387 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇭 Manama 📖 433 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Feb, Mar, Apr, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,346 places mapped
07:00–24:00
0006121824
24%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
112h
open per week
23%
open 24/7
Shops & errands476 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
5%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
140h
open per week
49%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
12
muggy days a year
161
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
10
umbrella days a year
3.2 m
of rain since 1981
8,938
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
823.7 km
to Ithnayn, Harrat
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:54
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
9,888
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKuwait City RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 24.1% 72 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Taganrog 24.5%🇪🇸 Vigo 24.4%🇺🇸 Green Bay 24.3%🇺🇸 Missoula 24.2%Kuwait City🇺🇸 Texarkana 24.1%🇦🇿 Baku 23.9%🇺🇸 Cedar Rapids 23.8%🇪🇸 A Coruña 23.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 112 h 11 of 1,878 🇬🇳 Coyah 112 h🇶🇦 Doha 112 h🇦🇱 Elbasan 112 h🇨🇩 Kinshasa 112 hKuwait City🇲🇪 Podgorica 112 h🇴🇲 Seeb 112 h🇺🇸 Bayonet Point 111.5 h🇷🇸 Kragujevac 110 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 30.1% 182 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Vic 30.3%🇺🇸 Bend 30.2%🇺🇸 College Station 30.2%🇺🇸 New Hope 30.2%Kuwait City🇺🇸 Fort Collins 30%🇬🇮 Gibraltar 30%🇺🇸 Lawrenceville 30%🇩🇿 Tizi Ouzou 30%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.2% 372 of 1,878 🇰🇷 Daegu 1.2%🇺🇸 Eugene 1.2%🇺🇸 Grand Rapids 1.2%🇮🇳 Kochi 1.2%Kuwait City🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 1.2%🇭🇺 Miskolc 1.2%🇺🇸 New Haven 1.2%🇺🇸 Sarasota 1.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 22.9% 40 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kagoshima 23.1%🇯🇵 Niigata 23.1%🇬🇳 Coyah 22.9%🇸🇦 Jeddah 22.9%Kuwait City🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 22.7%🇻🇳 Thái Nguyên 22.7%🇯🇵 Kofu 22.4%🇺🇸 Las Vegas 22.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Koriyama 100%🇯🇵 Kumagaya 100%🇯🇵 Kumamoto 100%🇬🇪 Kutaisi 100%Kuwait City🇺🇸 Lake Charles 100%🇺🇸 Lake in the Hills 100%🇺🇸 Lawrenceville 100%🇺🇸 Levittown 100%

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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