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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 147k · 1,497 venues mapped

Madison

Where Madison 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 55 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Rockford 93 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 811 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Madison 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 & drink1,497 places mapped
10:30–22:00
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
76h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
Shops & errands447 places mapped
07:45–22:00
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2%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
90h
open per week
12%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
23
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
117
umbrella days a year
41.9 m
of rain since 1981
735
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1516.5 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:26
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
17,481
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMadison RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9% 210 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Vancouver 9.1%🇭🇷 Zagreb 9.1%🇬🇧 Elland 9%🇩🇪 Iserlohn 9%Madison🇺🇸 McAllen 9%🇺🇸 Mesa 9%🇵🇱 Pabianice 9%🇮🇹 Perugia 9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 76 h 115 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Camberley 76 h🇺🇸 Chester 76 h🇺🇸 Durham 76 h🇬🇧 Kidderminster 76 hMadison🇻🇪 Maracaibo 76 h🇸🇰 Poprad 76 h🇱🇻 Riga 76 h🇮🇹 Salerno 76 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 27.5% 205 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Brindisi 27.6%🇺🇸 Des Moines 27.6%🇺🇸 Valdosta 27.6%🇮🇳 Attingal 27.5%Madison🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 27.4%🇺🇸 Salt Lake City 27.4%🇮🇹 Siena 27.4%🇱🇦 Vientiane 27.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.8% 336 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Boulder 4.8%🇺🇸 Fort Wayne 4.8%🇯🇵 Fukuchiyama 4.8%🇲🇾 Ipoh 4.8%Madison🇯🇵 Matsuyama 4.8%🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 4.8%🇵🇭 Puerto Princesa 4.8%🇮🇷 Qazvin 4.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.6% 225 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Dresden 0.6%🇩🇪 Gießen 0.6%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 0.6%🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 0.6%Madison🇩🇪 Mannheim 0.6%🇫🇷 Nimes 0.6%🇩🇪 Oldenburg 0.6%🇫🇷 Orléans 0.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94.4% 55 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Sheffield 94.5%🇬🇧 Wishaw 94.5%🇬🇧 East Kilbride 94.4%🇺🇸 Knoxville 94.4%Madison🇪🇨 Manta 94.4%🇺🇸 Pittsburgh 94.4%🇲🇲 Yangon 94.4%🇩🇰 Aalborg 94.3%

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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