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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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🇮🇱 Israel · metro 2.6M · 2,152 venues mapped

Tel Aviv

Where Tel Aviv 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 66 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Tel Aviv in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇮🇱 Yavne 23 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇾 Limassol 📖 332 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct, Nov — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink2,152 places mapped
10:00–23:00
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12%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
Shops & errands1,135 places mapped
06:30–23:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
103h
open per week
39%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
9
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
53
umbrella days a year
16 m
of rain since 1981
6,273
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
265.1 km
to Ash Shaam, Harrat
1.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.3 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
11,093
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTel Aviv RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.4% 176 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Lyon 12.4%🇫🇷 Nimes 12.4%🇺🇸 Providence 12.4%🇺🇸 Sacramento 12.4%Tel Aviv🇮🇹 Bologna 12.3%🇦🇹 Bregenz 12.3%🇷🇺 Kemerovo 12.3%🇺🇸 Laurel 12.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Simi Valley 77 h🇸🇬 Singapore 77 h🇭🇺 Szombathely 77 h🇵🇭 Tacloban 77 hTel Aviv🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 77 h🇪🇸 Torremolinos 77 h🇸🇰 Trnava 77 h🇭🇰 Tsuen Wan 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.5% 287 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Udaipur 18.8%🇮🇶 Kirkuk 18.6%🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 18.6%🇮🇶 Al Hillah 18.5%Tel Aviv🇮🇳 Coimbatore 18.4%🇮🇹 Florence 18.4%🇵🇹 Funchal 18.4%🇺🇬 Kampala 18.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.3% 361 of 1,878 🇰🇪 Ngong 2.3%🇳🇱 Purmerend 2.3%🇨🇴 Riohacha 2.3%🇵🇭 Tagaytay 2.3%Tel Aviv🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi 2.2%🇺🇸 Hilo 2.2%🇱🇹 Kaunas 2.2%🇺🇸 Milwaukee 2.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.7% 214 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Porto 1.7%🇺🇸 Redlands 1.7%🇧🇷 Sorocaba 1.7%🇬🇧 Swindon 1.7%Tel Aviv🇸🇪 Uppsala 1.7%🇷🇺 Vladikavkaz 1.7%🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 1.7%🇬🇧 Bournemouth 1.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.3% 66 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Palm Desert 93.3%🇺🇸 Redlands 93.3%🇺🇸 Savannah 93.3%🇬🇧 Scarborough 93.3%Tel Aviv🇨🇦 White Rock 93.3%🇮🇷 Yazd 93.3%🇷🇺 Abakan 93.2%🇺🇸 Baltimore 93.2%

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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