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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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Riobamba

Where Riobamba places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 139 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇨 Ambato 46 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇴 Medellín 📖 944 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Riobamba 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 & drink321 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
6%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
276
umbrella days a year
70.5 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
5
volcanoes within 100 km
14.3 km
to Licto
27.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:16
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.2 h
longest day of the year
16
public holidays, 2024
15,976
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureRiobamba RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2% 280 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Follonica 2%🇩🇪 Fulda 2%🇩🇪 Jena 2%🇵🇱 Lodz 2%Riobamba🇺🇸 Winchester 2%🇸🇰 Banská Bystrica 1.9%🇬🇧 Crewe 1.9%🇬🇧 High Wycombe 1.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇵🇾 Presidente Franco 70 h🇸🇰 Prešov 70 h🇲🇽 Puerto Vallarta 70 h🇬🇧 Redditch 70 hRiobamba🇪🇸 Roquetas de Mar 70 h🇵🇱 Rybnik 70 h🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 70 h🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 16.3% 309 of 1,878 🇦🇪 Dubai 16.3%🇬🇧 Gillingham 16.3%🇮🇹 Matera 16.3%🇮🇳 Puducherry 16.3%Riobamba🇨🇦 Sherbrooke 16.3%🇭🇺 Székesfehérvár 16.3%🇲🇽 Tulum 16.3%🇯🇵 Narita 16.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.1% 343 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Lynchburg 4.1%🇲🇲 Mawlamyine 4.1%🇧🇷 Ponta Porã 4.1%🇬🇧 Pontefract 4.1%Riobamba🇰🇭 Siem Reap 4.1%🇬🇧 Weston-super-Mare 4.1%🇹🇷 Bandırma 4%🇭🇷 Dubrovnik 4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.1% 170 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Irving 6.1%🇷🇺 Khabarovsk 6.1%🇲🇦 Marrakesh 6.1%🇧🇷 Ponta Porã 6.1%Riobamba🇸🇻 Santa Ana 6.1%🇸🇬 Singapore 6.1%🇷🇺 Tula 6.1%🇺🇸 Winchester 6.1%

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.

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