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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 2.3M · 5,232 venues mapped

Philadelphia

Where Philadelphia 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 37 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Chester 20 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 545 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Philadelphia 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 & drink5,232 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
79h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,860 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
27%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
46
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
130
umbrella days a year
53.6 m
of rain since 1981
1,632
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2708.1 km
to Dotsero
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:39
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,684
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePhiladelphia RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.5% 215 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Kolkata 8.5%🇯🇵 Koriyama 8.5%🇮🇹 Massa 8.5%🇺🇸 New Hope 8.5%Philadelphia🇵🇾 Presidente Franco 8.5%🇧🇷 Santa Maria 8.5%🇲🇽 Tijuana 8.5%🇦🇱 Tirana 8.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 79 h 101 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Fresno 79 h🇱🇹 Kaunas 79 h🇭🇰 Ma On Shan 79 h🇧🇷 Maringá 79 hPhiladelphia🇨🇿 Pilsen 79 h🇧🇷 Santos 79 h🇨🇦 Toronto 79 h🇺🇸 Washington 79 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 32.4% 162 of 1,878 🇲🇲 Mawlamyine 32.7%🇺🇸 Norcross 32.7%🇱🇦 Luang Prabang 32.5%🇺🇸 Dearborn Heights 32.4%Philadelphia🇺🇸 Cape Coral 32.3%🇺🇸 Cedar Rapids 32.2%🇦🇺 Geelong 32.2%🇺🇸 Poway 32.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.4% 370 of 1,878 🇺🇸 North Richland Hills 1.4%🇷🇺 Odintsovo 1.4%🇨🇿 Olomouc 1.4%🇺🇸 Omaha 1.4%Philadelphia🇹🇭 Phitsanulok 1.4%🇺🇸 Piscataway 1.4%🇸🇰 Poprad 1.4%🇮🇷 Rasht 1.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.7% 204 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Ise 2.7%🇹🇬 Lomé 2.7%🇺🇸 Moreno Valley 2.7%🇬🇧 Norwich 2.7%Philadelphia🇺🇸 Reading 2.7%🇺🇸 Schenectady 2.7%🇬🇧 Sunderland 2.7%🇬🇧 Torquay 2.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.2% 37 of 1,704 🇲🇽 Zapopan 96.3%🇬🇧 Folkestone 96.2%🇮🇱 Haifa 96.2%🇯🇵 Narita 96.2%Philadelphia🇺🇦 Poltava 96.2%🇬🇧 Reading 96.2%🇺🇸 Rochester 96.2%🇬🇧 Swindon 96.2%

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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