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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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🇹🇭 Thailand · metro 95k · 257 venues mapped

Udon Thani

Where Udon Thani 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 🇱🇦 Vientiane 64 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 430 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jan, Feb, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink257 places mapped
08:15–21:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Shops & errands128 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
77%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
214
muggy days a year
58
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
164
umbrella days a year
61.1 m
of rain since 1981
9,944
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
712.5 km
to Ly Son Group
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:40
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.2 h
longest day of the year
29
public holidays, 2024
5,664
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureUdon Thani RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.3% 217 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Maple Ridge 8.3%🇯🇵 Mito 8.3%🇷🇺 Nalchik 8.3%🇵🇹 Setúbal 8.3%Udon Thani🇦🇷 Ushuaia 8.3%🇬🇧 Weymouth 8.3%🇩🇰 Aalborg 8.2%🇰🇷 Daejeon 8.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 72.8 h 130 of 1,878 🇸🇰 Žilina 73 h🇬🇧 Blackburn 72.8 h🇰🇷 Changwon 72.8 h🇲🇽 Tepic 72.8 hUdon Thani🇨🇿 Liberec 72.5 h🇵🇪 Lima 72.5 h🇨🇭 Lugano 72.5 h🇭🇹 Port-au-Prince 72.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 29.2% 190 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Mysuru 29.4%🇦🇺 Point Cook 29.3%🇸🇮 Ljubljana 29.2%🇭🇰 Ma On Shan 29.2%Udon Thani🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 29.1%🇹🇭 Hat Yai 29.1%🇺🇸 Portland 29.1%🇲🇦 Rabat 29.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Târgu Mureș 0%🇧🇷 Uberlândia 0%🇹🇭 Ubon Ratchathani 0%🇮🇳 Udaipur 0%Udon Thani🇨🇱 Valparaíso 0%🇮🇳 Varanasi 0%🇧🇬 Varna 0%🇳🇱 Veenendaal 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.2% 169 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Bendigo 6.2%🇨🇴 Palmira 6.2%🇭🇳 Tegucigalpa 6.2%🇮🇳 Udaipur 6.2%Udon Thani🇰🇷 Daegu 6.1%🇺🇸 Irving 6.1%🇷🇺 Khabarovsk 6.1%🇲🇦 Marrakesh 6.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇦🇺 Toowoomba 100%🇺🇸 Traverse City 100%🇭🇰 Tuen Mun 100%🇲🇽 Tulum 100%Udon Thani🇯🇵 Utsunomiya 100%🇺🇸 Vacaville 100%🇲🇽 Valladolid 100%🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 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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