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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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🇺🇸 United States · metro 64k · 565 venues mapped

Lake in the Hills

Where Lake in the Hills 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 🇺🇸 Wheaton 40 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 746 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Lake in the Hills 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 & drink565 places mapped
09:45–22:00
0006121824
11%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
85h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands187 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
112h
open per week
20%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
24
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
121
umbrella days a year
43.5 m
of rain since 1981
1,238
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1593 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:25
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.3 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
17,598
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLake in the Hills RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.9% 191 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Craiova 10.9%🇺🇸 Glen Burnie 10.9%🇳🇱 Helmond 10.9%🇨🇦 Kitchener 10.9%Lake in the Hills🇬🇧 Maidstone 10.9%🇺🇸 South Bend 10.9%🇺🇸 Temecula 10.9%🇺🇸 Virginia Beach 10.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 85 h 79 of 1,878 🇨🇦 St. John's 85.5 h🇿🇦 Cape Town 85 h🇺🇸 Fairland 85 h🇷🇺 Khabarovsk 85 hLake in the Hills🇺🇦 Lutsk 85 h🇲🇾 Putrajaya 85 h🇷🇴 Râmnicu Vâlcea 85 h🇺🇸 Sioux Falls 85 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 34.5% 144 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Santa Rosa 34.6%🇩🇿 Zeralda 34.6%🇮🇹 Alessandria 34.5%🇳🇮 Granada 34.5%Lake in the Hills🇺🇸 Fairland 34.4%🇪🇸 Logroño 34.4%🇬🇧 Bangor 34.3%🇺🇸 Bozeman 34.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Lafayette 0%🇳🇬 Lagos 0%🇵🇰 Lahore 0%🇺🇸 Lake Charles 0%Lake in the Hills🇺🇸 Lakeland 0%🇪🇨 Latacunga 0%🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 0%🇳🇮 León 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.2% 199 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 3.3%🇬🇷 Chania 3.2%🇬🇧 Chester-le-Street 3.2%🇮🇹 Cremona 3.2%Lake in the Hills🇺🇸 Lincoln 3.2%🇺🇸 Lowell 3.2%🇺🇦 Lutsk 3.2%🇺🇸 Manchester 3.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Kumamoto 100%🇬🇪 Kutaisi 100%🇰🇼 Kuwait City 100%🇺🇸 Lake Charles 100%Lake in the Hills🇺🇸 Lawrenceville 100%🇺🇸 Levittown 100%🇮🇪 Limerick 100%🇬🇧 Lincoln 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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