Did you know that Sept. 29 is National Coffee Day?

Me neither. But it’s on the internet, so it must be true.

To mark the occasion, the ever-busy folks at WalletHub (who appear to be amped up on caffeine 24/7, given the multitude of surveys they continually crank out) have issued a list of the top 100 cities when it comes to loving a cup of java.

No surprise (duh, even) that Seattle and Portland, Ore., top the list. But Honolulu? Amazingly, we’re No. 19.

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The metrics include the average price of a pack of coffee as well as a cappuccino, and in that regard Honolulu was just about the most expensive among the cities surveyed.

We are also at No. 4 for most coffee shops, coffee houses and cafes per capita, again behind San Francisco, Seattle and Portland.

(There are at least four within a block or two from Civil Beat’s offices on Waialae Avenue; we’ve also got a well-used Nespresso machine in the kitchen.)

The city that ranked last for coffee loving? Laredo, Texas.

Says the Hub, “According to a Gallup poll, nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults today drink coffee, and each averages 2.7 cups of joe per day. Some estimates even place Americans in the lead of global coffee consumption, at 146 billions cups per year, earning us the status as the most caffeinated — and wired — humans on the planet.”

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