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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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🇬🇪 Georgia · metro 988k · 3,078 venues mapped

Tbilisi

Where Tbilisi 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 12 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Tbilisi in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇷🇺 Vladikavkaz 150 km Nearest written profile 🇦🇲 Yerevan 📖 170 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, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands3,876 places mapped
00:00–24:00
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2%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
53%
open 24/7
Food & drink3,078 places mapped
10:00–23:00
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23%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
7%
open 24/7
Services1,335 places mapped
08:30–22:30
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1%
open past midnight
67%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
11%
open 24/7
Culture222 places mapped
11:00–19:00
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2%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
90
umbrella days a year
17.9 m
of rain since 1981
3,163
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
95.7 km
to Samsari Volcanic Center
10
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:34
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.2 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
10,941
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTbilisi RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 23.2% 79 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Beppu 23.2%🇪🇸 Lleida 23.2%🇰🇿 Oral 23.2%🇨🇱 Penco 23.2%Tbilisi🇰🇿 Atyrau 23.1%🇬🇷 Kos 23.1%🇱🇧 Beirut 23%🇲🇪 Budva 22.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇮🇷 Tabriz 84 h🇵🇭 Tagaytay 84 h🇮🇳 Talegaon Dabhade 84 h🇵🇭 Tarlac City 84 hTbilisi🇭🇳 Tegucigalpa 84 h🇺🇦 Ternopil 84 h🇧🇹 Thimphu 84 h🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 0.3% 467 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Deventer 0.7%🇳🇱 Helmond 0.7%🇳🇱 Maastricht 0.6%🇯🇵 Beppu 0.5%Tbilisi🇫🇷 Agde 0%🇸🇾 Aleppo 0%🇪🇸 Almuñécar 0%🇹🇷 Bandırma 0%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.3% 381 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Sochi 0.3%🇺🇸 Spokane 0.3%🇪🇪 Tallinn 0.3%🇺🇿 Tashkent 0.3%Tbilisi🇸🇰 Košice 0.2%🇺🇦 Kyiv 0.2%🇺🇸 Providence 0.2%🇷🇺 Krasnodar 0.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7.4% 157 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Huntington Station 7.4%🇯🇵 Osaka 7.4%🇲🇾 Rawang 7.4%🇦🇷 Santa Fe 7.4%Tbilisi🇷🇺 Astrakhan 7.3%🇦🇺 Perth 7.3%🇨🇦 Winnipeg 7.3%🇷🇺 Barnaul 7.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.7% 12 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Kaluga 98.7%🇺🇸 Lexington 98.7%🇦🇱 Shkoder 98.7%🇰🇿 Shymkent 98.7%Tbilisi🇷🇺 Anapa 98.6%🇺🇸 Dale City 98.6%🇺🇸 Houston 98.6%🇺🇸 Tucson 98.6%

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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