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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 138k · 373 venues mapped

Waco

Where Waco 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 🇺🇸 Killeen 73 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Austin 📖 154 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Waco 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 & drink373 places mapped
09:00–23:00
0006121824
14%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands112 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
97h
open per week
26%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
97
muggy days a year
28
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
93
umbrella days a year
42.8 m
of rain since 1981
6,188
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
858.5 km
to Carrizozo
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:30
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.2 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
16,906
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureWaco RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.4% 156 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Barnaul 14.4%🇯🇵 Hachioji 14.4%🇯🇵 Hino 14.4%🇺🇸 Oklahoma City 14.4%Waco🇺🇸 Atlantic City 14.3%🇬🇧 Bangor 14.3%🇺🇸 Grand Rapids 14.3%🇮🇹 Modena 14.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 90.8 h 59 of 1,878 🇨🇲 Yaoundé 91 h🇷🇺 Yeysk 91 h🇨🇴 Yopal 91 h🇭🇷 Zadar 91 hWaco🇷🇸 Subotica 90.5 h🇺🇦 Zhytomyr 90.4 h🇺🇸 Escondido 90.2 h🇯🇵 Hanno 90.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 36.5% 124 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Viterbo 36.8%🇺🇸 York 36.8%🇺🇸 White Plains 36.7%🇹🇬 Lomé 36.5%Waco🇺🇸 Bridgeport 36.4%🇰🇭 Phnom Penh 36.4%🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 36.3%🇺🇸 Dallas 36.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1% 374 of 1,878 🇭🇷 Split 1%🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 1%🇷🇺 Tula 1%🇸🇪 Umeå 1%Waco🇺🇸 Albuquerque 0.9%🇿🇦 Cape Town 0.9%🇺🇸 Charlotte 0.9%🇺🇦 Chernivtsi 0.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.8% 193 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Pueblo 3.8%🇯🇵 Sendai 3.8%🇬🇧 Slough 3.8%🇮🇩 Ubud 3.8%Waco🇬🇧 Wakefield 3.8%🇺🇸 Yuma 3.8%🇲🇽 Zapopan 3.8%🇷🇺 Azov 3.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Utsunomiya 100%🇺🇸 Vacaville 100%🇲🇽 Valladolid 100%🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 100%Waco🇺🇸 Warren 100%🇺🇸 Waterbury 100%🇺🇸 Watsonville 100%🇺🇸 West Haven 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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