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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 248k · 1,043 venues mapped

Rochester

Where Rochester places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is open before 8 a.m., where it ranks 27 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Buffalo 107 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 157 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Rochester 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 & drink1,043 places mapped
07:00–21:30
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
Shops & errands338 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
5%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
22%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
10
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
159
umbrella days a year
42.1 m
of rain since 1981
927
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2471.1 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:38
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,298
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureRochester RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.5% 235 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Lobnya 6.5%🇸🇪 Lund 6.5%🇳🇮 Managua 6.5%🇨🇿 Pardubice 6.5%Rochester🇦🇹 Salzburg 6.5%🇲🇽 Toluca 6.5%🇺🇸 Winston-Salem 6.5%🇨🇴 Barranquilla 6.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Redlands 84 h🇺🇸 Reno 84 h🇭🇷 Rijeka 84 h🇺🇦 Rivne 84 hRochester🇷🇺 Ryazan 84 h🇲🇲 Sagaing 84 h🇨🇦 Saint John 84 h🇺🇸 Salem 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 52.8% 27 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Spring Valley 53.3%🇺🇸 Bakersfield 52.9%🇺🇸 Pharr 52.9%🇧🇦 Mostar 52.8%Rochester🇺🇸 Greenville 52.7%🇺🇸 Schenectady 52.7%🇺🇸 Bradenton 51.9%🇺🇸 Kalamazoo 51.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.2% 362 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Milwaukee 2.2%🇷🇺 Moscow 2.2%🇺🇸 New York City 2.2%🇨🇦 Ottawa 2.2%Rochester🇺🇸 Salinas 2.2%🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 2.2%🇭🇺 Sopron 2.2%🇲🇲 Twante 2.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.2% 219 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Maastricht 1.2%🇫🇷 Marseille 1.2%🇪🇸 Mataró 1.2%🇫🇷 Rennes 1.2%Rochester🇺🇸 Santa Fe 1.2%🇫🇷 Tours 1.2%🇺🇸 Watsonville 1.2%🇭🇷 Zagreb 1.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.2% 37 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Narita 96.2%🇺🇸 Philadelphia 96.2%🇺🇦 Poltava 96.2%🇬🇧 Reading 96.2%Rochester🇬🇧 Swindon 96.2%🇹🇼 Taitung 96.2%🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 96.1%🇺🇸 Brockton 96.1%

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, shops open on sunday.

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