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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 29k · 214 venues mapped

Saratoga Springs

Where Saratoga Springs 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Schenectady 32 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Montreal 📖 270 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Saratoga Springs 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 & drink214 places mapped
10:30–22:00
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
Shops & errands61 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
12%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
19
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
138
umbrella days a year
51.2 m
of rain since 1981
428
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2782.1 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:23
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,516
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSaratoga Springs RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.5% 195 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Novo Hamburgo 10.5%🇵🇪 Pucallpa 10.5%🇲🇦 Rabat 10.5%🇺🇸 Santa Clarita 10.5%Saratoga Springs🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 10.4%🇨🇷 Cartago 10.4%🇲🇽 Mexico City 10.4%🇺🇸 Mission Viejo 10.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City 77 h🇺🇸 San Diego 77 h🇧🇿 San Pedro 77 h🇯🇵 Sapporo 77 hSaratoga Springs🇨🇦 Sherbrooke 77 h🇯🇵 Shibata 77 h🇺🇸 Simi Valley 77 h🇸🇬 Singapore 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 36.8% 122 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Cheyenne 36.8%🇨🇳 Chongqing 36.8%🇺🇸 Kansas City 36.8%🇺🇸 Sacramento 36.8%Saratoga Springs🇮🇹 Viterbo 36.8%🇺🇸 York 36.8%🇺🇸 White Plains 36.7%🇹🇬 Lomé 36.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.5% 349 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Bakersfield 3.5%🇨🇳 Beijing 3.5%🇲🇦 Rabat 3.5%🇳🇱 Roosendaal 3.5%Saratoga Springs🇺🇸 Trenton 3.5%🇵🇭 Agoo 3.4%🇬🇧 Coventry 3.4%🇺🇸 New Orleans 3.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Santa Pola 0%🇪🇸 Santander 0%🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 0%🇲🇽 Santiago de Querétaro 0%Saratoga Springs🇨🇭 Schaffhausen 0%🇩🇪 Schweinfurt 0%🇵🇹 Setúbal 0%🇩🇪 Siegen 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Salinas 100%🇺🇸 San Clemente 100%🇺🇸 San Marcos 100%🇯🇵 Sano 100%Saratoga Springs🇨🇦 Sarnia 100%🇺🇸 Schenectady 100%🇴🇲 Seeb 100%🇲🇾 Seremban 100%

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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