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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 821k · 2,048 venues mapped

New Orleans

Where New Orleans 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 31 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Baton Rouge 120 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Austin 📖 738 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else New Orleans 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 & drink2,048 places mapped
09:00–22:00
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13%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
7%
open 24/7
Shops & errands352 places mapped
07:30–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
8%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
171
muggy days a year
106
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
159
umbrella days a year
72 m
of rain since 1981
3,204
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1338.1 km
to Naolinco Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:05
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.1 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
17,538
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNew Orleans RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.8% 172 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Echizen 12.8%🇨🇴 Ibagué 12.8%🇱🇹 Klaipėda 12.8%🇲🇽 Mérida 12.8%New Orleans🇨🇦 Sarnia 12.8%🇧🇷 São Paulo 12.8%🇫🇷 Avignon 12.7%🇺🇸 Huntington 12.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Mysuru 84 h🇰🇪 Nairobi 84 h🇨🇳 Nanjing 84 h🇮🇳 New Delhi 84 hNew Orleans🇸🇰 Nitra 84 h🇺🇸 Normal 84 h🇷🇺 Omsk 84 h🇪🇸 Ourense 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 34.1% 148 of 1,878 🇸🇮 Maribor 34.2%🇺🇸 Myrtle Beach 34.2%🇺🇸 Tacoma 34.2%🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 34.1%New Orleans🇺🇸 Santa Fe 34.1%🇺🇸 Layton 34%🇺🇸 Harrisonburg 33.9%🇺🇸 Merced 33.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.4% 350 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs 3.5%🇺🇸 Trenton 3.5%🇵🇭 Agoo 3.4%🇬🇧 Coventry 3.4%New Orleans🇻🇳 Nha Trang 3.4%🇱🇦 Pakse 3.4%🇧🇷 Teresina 3.4%🇬🇧 Torquay 3.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.7% 164 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Koyilandy 6.7%🇧🇷 Lago Norte 6.7%🇬🇧 Livingston 6.7%🇺🇸 Murfreesboro 6.7%New Orleans🇬🇧 Nottingham 6.7%🇮🇳 Puducherry 6.7%🇲🇲 Pyin Oo Lwin 6.7%🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 6.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.8% 31 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 96.8%🇮🇳 Hyderabad 96.8%🇺🇸 Laurel 96.8%🇺🇸 Mansfield 96.8%New Orleans🇺🇸 Oklahoma City 96.8%🇺🇸 Piscataway 96.8%🇺🇸 Springfield 96.8%🇺🇸 Waukegan 96.8%

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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