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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
Everything else3
The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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🇴🇲 Oman · metro 735k · 869 venues mapped

Muscat

Where Muscat 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.

This city has a full profile Read Muscat in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇴🇲 Seeb 24 km Nearest written profile 🇦🇪 Dubai 📖 355 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jan, Feb, Mar, 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 & drink869 places mapped
09:00–23:30
0006121824
20%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
94h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
11%
open 24/7
Shops & errands329 places mapped
08:00–24:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
112h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
27%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
26
muggy days a year
169
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
22
umbrella days a year
8.1 m
of rain since 1981
11,312
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1190.3 km
to Bir Borhut
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:25
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.6 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
8,682
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMuscat RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 19.8% 106 of 1,878 🇨🇾 Protaras 20%🇺🇸 State College 20%🇨🇳 Zhaoqing 20%🇺🇸 Greenville 19.8%Muscat🇷🇺 Irkutsk 19.6%🇷🇺 Khabarovsk 19.4%🇲🇨 Monaco 19.4%🇧🇫 Ouagadougou 19.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 94.5 h 48 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Izhevsk 94.5 h🇮🇳 Kannur 94.5 h🇦🇴 Luanda 94.5 h🇺🇸 Morgantown 94.5 hMuscat🇯🇵 Niigata 94.5 h🇳🇵 Pokhara 94.5 h🇹🇯 Proletar 94.5 h🇺🇸 Scranton 94.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 27.7% 203 of 1,878 🇬🇦 Libreville 27.8%🇻🇳 Nha Trang 27.8%🇮🇹 Bari 27.7%🇺🇸 Conway 27.7%Muscat🇬🇧 Bracknell 27.6%🇮🇹 Brindisi 27.6%🇺🇸 Des Moines 27.6%🇺🇸 Valdosta 27.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 11.9% 271 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Peterborough 12%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 12%🇬🇧 Colchester 11.9%🇩🇪 Görlitz 11.9%Muscat🇮🇹 Taranto 11.9%🇬🇧 Doncaster 11.8%🇧🇷 Manaus 11.8%🇲🇺 Port Louis 11.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10.9% 122 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 11%🇵🇭 Agoo 10.9%🇷🇺 Kazan 10.9%🇮🇳 Kottayam 10.9%Muscat🇨🇺 Santa Clara 10.9%🇺🇿 Yangiyul 10.9%🇳🇮 Tipitapa 10.8%🇺🇸 Atascocita 10.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Miyazaki 100%🇺🇸 Modesto 100%🇺🇸 Morgantown 100%🇮🇶 Mosul 100%Muscat🇯🇵 Nagano 100%🇯🇵 Nagasaki 100%🇹🇭 Nakhon Ratchasima 100%🇷🇺 Nalchik 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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