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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
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The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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🇺🇸 United States · metro 127k · 286 venues mapped

Topeka

Where Topeka 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 34 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Lawrence 39 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Austin 📖 994 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Topeka 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 & drink286 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
14%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
Shops & errands118 places mapped
06:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
108h
open per week
19%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
49
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
107
umbrella days a year
44 m
of rain since 1981
2,938
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
978.2 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:04
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.9 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
17,069
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTopeka RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 13.6% 164 of 1,878 🇿🇼 Harare 13.6%🇳🇴 Oslo 13.6%🇮🇹 Pesaro 13.6%🇺🇸 Rockford 13.6%Topeka🇺🇸 Bradenton 13.5%🇺🇸 Dayton 13.5%🇺🇸 Erie 13.5%🇺🇸 Lafayette 13.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 98 h 37 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Spring Valley 98 h🇷🇺 Taganrog 98 h🇺🇿 Tashkent 98 h🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 98 hTopeka🇺🇸 Troy 98 h🇺🇸 Waterbury 98 h🇺🇸 Wichita 98 h🇹🇷 Yalova 98 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 50.6% 34 of 1,878 🇺🇸 McAllen 51.4%🇨🇦 Sarnia 51.1%🇻🇳 Vũng Tàu 51.1%🇺🇸 Visalia 51%Topeka🇺🇸 Daytona Beach 50.3%🇺🇸 Hartford 50.1%🇺🇸 Escondido 50%🇹🇳 Hammamet 50%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇩🇿 Tizi Ouzou 0%🇲🇽 Tlalnepantla 0%🇲🇽 Toluca 0%🇷🇺 Tomsk 0%Topeka🇵🇱 Toruń 0%🇬🇹 Totonicapán 0%🇹🇷 Trabzon 0%🇺🇸 Traverse City 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Tilburg 0%🇮🇹 Tivoli 0%🇲🇽 Tlalnepantla 0%🇪🇸 Toledo 0%Topeka🇪🇸 Torrevieja 0%🇵🇱 Toruń 0%🇬🇹 Totonicapán 0%🇧🇪 Tournai 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.8% 61 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Redding 93.8%🇺🇸 Scranton 93.8%🇬🇧 Stoke-on-Trent 93.8%🇲🇽 Tepic 93.8%Topeka🇩🇿 Zeralda 93.8%🇺🇦 Lviv 93.7%🇸🇪 Norrköping 93.7%🇦🇺 Point Cook 93.7%

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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