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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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🇹🇭 Thailand · metro 254k · 2,628 venues mapped

Pattaya

Where Pattaya 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 24 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇹🇭 Chon Buri 49 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Bangkok 📖 100 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Pattaya 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 & drink2,628 places mapped
11:00–23:00
0006121824
14%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
10%
open 24/7
Shops & errands711 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
81%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
345
muggy days a year
320
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
206
umbrella days a year
61.2 m
of rain since 1981
4,487
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
765.8 km
to Barren Island
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:56
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.9 h
longest day of the year
29
public holidays, 2024
5,240
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePattaya RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.5% 155 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Caen 14.5%🇯🇵 Hakodate 14.5%🇮🇷 Mashhad 14.5%🇨🇦 Montreal 14.5%Pattaya🇰🇿 Shymkent 14.5%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 14.5%🇫🇷 Valenciennes 14.5%🇷🇺 Barnaul 14.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇺🇸 National City 77 h🇨🇦 Oshawa 77 h🇨🇿 Ostrava 77 h🇨🇿 Pardubice 77 hPattaya🇺🇸 Poway 77 h🇨🇿 Prague 77 h🇨🇦 Quebec 77 h🇺🇸 Raleigh 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.5% 417 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Bremen 5.5%🇩🇪 Erfurt 5.5%🇩🇪 Leipzig 5.5%🇫🇷 Nantes 5.5%Pattaya🇷🇺 Stavropol 5.5%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 5.5%🇳🇱 Amsterdam 5.4%🇦🇹 Bregenz 5.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Palembang 0%🇺🇸 Palmdale 0%🇨🇴 Palmira 0%🇨🇴 Pasto 0%Pattaya🇮🇳 Payyanur 0%🇰🇿 Petropavl 0%🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 0%🇺🇸 Pharr 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10.2% 129 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Columbia 10.2%🇪🇬 Hurghada 10.2%🇷🇺 Kaluga 10.2%🇲🇲 Mawlamyine 10.2%Pattaya🇹🇷 Antalya 10.1%🇺🇸 Birmingham 10.1%🇺🇸 Killeen 10.1%🇬🇧 Lincoln 10.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.5% 24 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Harrisburg 97.5%🇺🇸 Hartford 97.5%🇳🇵 Kathmandu 97.5%🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 97.5%Pattaya🇺🇸 Providence 97.5%🇺🇸 Santa Rosa 97.5%🇺🇸 Hazel Park 97.4%🇺🇸 Lacey 97.4%

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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