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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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🇨🇲 Cameroon · metro 5.5M · 2,541 venues mapped

Yaoundé

Where Yaoundé 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 🇬🇦 Libreville 449 km Nearest written profile 🇷🇼 Kigali 📖 2,160 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, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands2,827 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
17%
open 24/7
Food & drink2,541 places mapped
09:00–22:45
0006121824
5%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
14%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
304
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
229
umbrella days a year
70.1 m
of rain since 1981
1,516
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
222.8 km
to Tombel Graben
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:09
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.3 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
11,587
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureYaoundé RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.3% 247 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Swansea 5.3%🇭🇺 Szombathely 5.3%🇹🇼 Taitung 5.3%🇷🇴 Târgoviște 5.3%Yaoundé🇨🇴 Yopal 5.3%🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 5.2%🇩🇪 Gütersloh 5.2%🇭🇺 Kecskemét 5.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇺🇸 West Haven 91 h🇺🇸 Winchester 91 h🇨🇦 Windsor 91 h🇨🇳 Wuhan 91 hYaoundé🇷🇺 Yeysk 91 h🇨🇴 Yopal 91 h🇭🇷 Zadar 91 h🇺🇸 Waco 90.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.8% 354 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Marignane 11.8%🇯🇵 Sapporo 11.8%🇪🇸 Segovia 11.8%🇨🇭 Winterthur 11.8%Yaoundé🇨🇦 Kitchener 11.7%🇫🇮 Lahti 11.7%🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne 11.7%🇳🇴 Oslo 11.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 7.9% 305 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 8%🇬🇧 Hastings 7.9%🇨🇳 Nanjing 7.9%🇬🇧 Southampton 7.9%Yaoundé🇬🇧 Cardiff 7.8%🇺🇸 Concord 7.8%🇬🇧 Falkirk 7.8%🇩🇪 Hamburg 7.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 14.5% 92 of 1,878 🇺🇸 San Antonio 14.6%🇩🇿 Algiers 14.5%🇰🇷 Daejeon 14.5%🇺🇸 Valdosta 14.5%Yaoundé🇹🇯 Hisor 14.3%🇷🇼 Kigali 14.3%🇪🇨 Latacunga 14.3%🇮🇩 Medan 14.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 72.2% 233 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Bordeaux 72.6%🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 72.6%🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 72.5%🇧🇷 Manaus 72.3%Yaoundé🇮🇹 Bari 72.1%🇧🇷 Curitiba 72.1%🇧🇪 Ostend 72%🇳🇱 Tilburg 71.9%

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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