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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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 58k · 648 venues mapped

Aldershot

Where Aldershot 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 96 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Camberley 10 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 53 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink648 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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10%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
Shops & errands266 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Culture132 places mapped
09:30–17:00
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0%
open past midnight
24%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
Services83 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
21%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
143
umbrella days a year
35.3 m
of rain since 1981
28
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
549.1 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:58
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.6 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,522
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAldershot RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.7% 203 of 1,878 🇵🇪 Lima 9.8%🇫🇷 Reims 9.8%🇯🇵 Sano 9.8%🇩🇪 Tübingen 9.8%Aldershot🇺🇸 Corvallis 9.7%🇯🇵 Fukuyama 9.7%🇳🇱 Hilversum 9.7%🇺🇸 Huntington Station 9.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 68.5 h 146 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Vienna 69 h🇸🇪 Västerås 69 h🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 69 h🇯🇵 Okayama 68.6 hAldershot🇬🇧 Dunfermline 68.5 h🇧🇷 Goiânia 68.5 h🇺🇸 Olympia 68.5 h🇸🇪 Södertälje 68.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 15.4% 318 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Bristol 15.5%🇬🇧 Ipswich 15.5%🇨🇦 Montreal 15.5%🇬🇧 Aberdeen 15.4%Aldershot🇩🇪 Fulda 15.4%🇬🇧 Hereford 15.4%🇯🇵 Isesaki 15.4%🇯🇵 Niigata 15.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 7.2% 312 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Santa Fe 7.4%🇬🇧 Exeter 7.3%🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 7.3%🇱🇦 Vientiane 7.3%Aldershot🇺🇸 Charlottesville 7.2%🇦🇺 Adelaide 7.1%🇧🇷 Belém 7.1%🇯🇵 Hanno 7.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.8% 213 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Vigevano 1.9%🇸🇪 Västerås 1.9%🇸🇰 Žilina 1.9%🇺🇸 Albuquerque 1.8%Aldershot🇺🇸 Bakersfield 1.8%🇧🇳 Bandar Seri Begawan 1.8%🇫🇷 Blois 1.8%🇨🇿 Brno 1.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 90.1% 96 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Littlehampton 90.2%🇸🇪 Malmo 90.2%🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen 90.2%🇸🇪 Västerås 90.2%Aldershot🇵🇹 Aveiro 90%🇺🇸 Billings 90%🇹🇷 Bursa 90%🇨🇴 Cali 90%

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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