athens.taipei The Atlas of City Experiences
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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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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Southern Europe21
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Western Europe20
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North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇦🇺 Australia · metro 938k · 2,720 venues mapped

Adelaide

Where Adelaide 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 50 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇦🇺 Bendigo 551 km Nearest written profile 🇦🇺 Melbourne 📖 654 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, Mar, Apr, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink2,720 places mapped
09:00–21:00
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
10%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,066 places mapped
07:30–21:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
80h
open per week
21%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
65
umbrella days a year
20.8 m
of rain since 1981
2,355
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
471 km
to Newer Volcanics Province
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:11
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.5 h
longest day of the year
7
public holidays, 2024
2,131
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAdelaide RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.1% 269 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Oldenburg 3.2%🇸🇰 Prešov 3.2%🇮🇷 Tehran 3.2%🇭🇺 Érd 3.2%Adelaide🇳🇱 Bussum 3.1%🇻🇪 Caracas 3.1%🇩🇪 Dresden 3.1%🇩🇪 Erfurt 3.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 56 h 197 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Oldenburg 56.5 h🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 56.5 h🇬🇧 Littlehampton 56.2 h🇩🇰 Aalborg 56 hAdelaide🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 56 h🇯🇵 Aomori 56 h🇵🇾 Asuncion 56 h🇩🇪 Augsburg 56 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 21.4% 260 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Newcastle 21.7%🇲🇹 Valletta 21.7%🇬🇧 Birmingham 21.6%🇦🇷 Salta 21.6%Adelaide🇬🇧 Basildon 21.4%🇮🇹 Livorno 21.4%🇮🇹 Milan 21.4%🇷🇴 Târgu Mureș 21.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 7.1% 313 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 7.3%🇱🇦 Vientiane 7.3%🇬🇧 Aldershot 7.2%🇺🇸 Charlottesville 7.2%Adelaide🇧🇷 Belém 7.1%🇯🇵 Hanno 7.1%🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne 7.1%🇸🇷 Paramaribo 7.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 9.6% 135 of 1,878 🇲🇦 Casablanca 9.7%🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 9.7%🇯🇵 Naha 9.7%🇨🇦 Toronto 9.7%Adelaide🇧🇷 São Paulo 9.6%🇺🇿 Tashkent 9.6%🇲🇾 Alor Setar 9.5%🇯🇵 Fuji 9.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94.9% 50 of 1,704 🇮🇳 Talegaon Dabhade 95%🇮🇷 Tehran 95%🇹🇭 Ubon Ratchathani 95%🇱🇹 Vilnius 95%Adelaide🇬🇧 Bracknell 94.9%🇨🇦 Edmonton 94.9%🇬🇧 Glasgow 94.9%🇺🇦 Ivano-Frankivsk 94.9%

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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