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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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Vladikavkaz

Where Vladikavkaz places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 58 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Nalchik 99 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇪 Tbilisi 📖 150 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands321 places mapped
08:30–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
9%
open 24/7
Food & drink316 places mapped
10:00–23:00
0006121824
7%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
126
umbrella days a year
34 m
of rain since 1981
182
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
1
volcanoes within 100 km
39.7 km
to Kazbek
14.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:30
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
11,039
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureVladikavkaz RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.8% 232 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Radom 6.8%🇨🇴 Riohacha 6.8%🇺🇸 Schenectady 6.8%🇬🇧 Swindon 6.8%Vladikavkaz🇱🇹 Šiauliai 6.8%🇮🇹 Acireale 6.7%🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 6.7%🇨🇳 Bao'an 6.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Tver 91 h🇷🇴 Târgoviște 91 h🇺🇸 Vacaville 91 h🇵🇹 Vila Real 91 hVladikavkaz🇻🇳 Vũng Tàu 91 h🇺🇸 Warren 91 h🇺🇸 Waukegan 91 h🇺🇸 West Haven 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 3.4% 438 of 1,878 🇧🇴 La Paz 3.4%🇳🇱 Leiden 3.4%🇺🇦 Poltava 3.4%🇧🇷 Teresina 3.4%Vladikavkaz🇮🇱 Yavne 3.4%🇳🇱 Heerlen 3.3%🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 3.3%🇺🇦 Sumy 3.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Veenendaal 0%🇺🇸 Virginia Beach 0%🇮🇳 Visakhapatnam 0%🇺🇸 Visalia 0%Vladikavkaz🇷🇺 Volgograd 0%🇺🇸 Warren 0%🇮🇩 Watampone 0%🇺🇸 Willoughby 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.7% 214 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Sorocaba 1.7%🇬🇧 Swindon 1.7%🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 1.7%🇸🇪 Uppsala 1.7%Vladikavkaz🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 1.7%🇬🇧 Bournemouth 1.6%🇺🇸 Brockton 1.6%🇮🇹 Como 1.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.5% 64 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Murfreesboro 93.5%🇬🇧 Redditch 93.5%🇺🇸 Seattle 93.5%🇮🇷 Tabriz 93.5%Vladikavkaz🇱🇹 Klaipėda 93.4%🇧🇷 Araraquara 93.3%🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 93.3%🇺🇸 Champaign 93.3%

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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