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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 454k · 310 venues mapped

Virginia Beach

Where Virginia Beach 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 19 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Norfolk 27 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 815 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Virginia Beach 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 & drink310 places mapped
09:00–21:30
0006121824
11%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
Shops & errands90 places mapped
06:00–23:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
114h
open per week
34%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
84
muggy days a year
14
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
135
umbrella days a year
53.8 m
of rain since 1981
1,619
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2475.7 km
to Saba
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:51
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.7 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,801
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureVirginia Beach RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.9% 191 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Lake in the Hills 10.9%🇬🇧 Maidstone 10.9%🇺🇸 South Bend 10.9%🇺🇸 Temecula 10.9%Virginia Beach🇺🇸 Dothan 10.8%🇺🇸 Huntsville 10.8%🇺🇸 Iowa City 10.8%🇬🇧 Lowestoft 10.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 84 h🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 84 h🇨🇺 Varadero 84 h🇧🇬 Varna 84 hVirginia Beach🇷🇺 Volgograd 84 h🇷🇺 Vyborg 84 h🇺🇸 White Plains 84 h🇺🇦 Yalta 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 43.6% 68 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Moreno Valley 43.8%🇺🇸 Great Falls 43.6%🇺🇸 Oxford 43.6%🇺🇸 Peabody 43.6%Virginia Beach🇺🇸 Edmond 43.5%🇳🇵 Pokhara 43.5%🇺🇸 Cinco Ranch 43.3%🇦🇷 Mar del Plata 43.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇨🇱 Valparaíso 0%🇮🇳 Varanasi 0%🇧🇬 Varna 0%🇳🇱 Veenendaal 0%Virginia Beach🇮🇳 Visakhapatnam 0%🇺🇸 Visalia 0%🇷🇺 Vladikavkaz 0%🇷🇺 Volgograd 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Vichy 0%🇵🇹 Vila Real 0%🇦🇹 Villach 0%🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 0%Virginia Beach🇵🇹 Viseu 0%🇮🇹 Viterbo 0%🇧🇷 Vitória 0%🇬🇷 Volos 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98% 19 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Penza 98%🇺🇸 South Bend 98%🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 98%🇯🇵 Tokyo 98%Virginia Beach🇯🇵 Wakayama 98%🇹🇭 Bangkok 97.9%🇬🇧 Blackpool 97.9%🇺🇸 Escondido 97.9%

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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