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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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🇮🇹 Italy · metro 213k · 1,571 venues mapped

Pescara

Where Pescara places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 108 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Chieti 13 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Rome 📖 153 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, Jun, Jul, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,571 places mapped
11:00–23:00
0006121824
19%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
66h
open per week
20%
take a midday break
Shops & errands562 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
60%
open on Sundays
74h
open per week
37%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
23
muggy days a year
33
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
111
umbrella days a year
33.8 m
of rain since 1981
393
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
144.7 km
to Colli Albani
10.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:34
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.3 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,224
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePescara RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 19.4% 108 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Irkutsk 19.6%🇷🇺 Khabarovsk 19.4%🇲🇨 Monaco 19.4%🇧🇫 Ouagadougou 19.4%Pescara🇳🇱 Roosendaal 19.3%🇺🇸 Tuscaloosa 19.3%🇲🇱 Bamako 19.2%🇺🇸 Milwaukee 19.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 66 h 157 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Macapá 66 h🇲🇾 Miri 66 h🇨🇦 Nanaimo 66 h🇨🇱 Penco 66 hPescara🇲🇽 Santiago de Querétaro 66 h🇬🇧 Sheffield 66 h🇬🇧 Southampton 66 h🇸🇪 Stockholm 66 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 33.8% 151 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Santa Fe 34.1%🇺🇸 Layton 34%🇺🇸 Harrisonburg 33.9%🇺🇸 Merced 33.9%Pescara🇺🇸 Cincinnati 33.7%🇨🇦 Kelowna 33.6%🇺🇸 Medford 33.6%🇹🇷 Ankara 33.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 20.2% 202 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Offenburg 20.5%🇮🇹 Savona 20.5%🇩🇪 Siegen 20.4%🇩🇪 Tübingen 20.4%Pescara🇪🇸 Vilanova i la Geltrú 20.2%🇧🇷 Blumenau 20.1%🇮🇹 Acireale 20%🇪🇸 Dos Hermanas 20%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.3% 218 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Norrköping 1.3%🇨🇭 Olten 1.3%🇨🇿 Pardubice 1.3%🇮🇹 Perugia 1.3%Pescara🇲🇪 Podgorica 1.3%🇸🇰 Prešov 1.3%🇦🇷 San Juan 1.3%🇮🇹 Venice 1.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 59.9% 321 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 60%🇨🇿 Brno 60%🇮🇹 Matera 60%🇧🇿 San Pedro 60%Pescara🇫🇷 Brest 59.7%🇧🇪 Verviers 59.7%🇧🇪 La Louvière 59.6%🇳🇱 Arnhem 59.4%

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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