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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🇪🇸 Spain · metro 401k · 1,288 venues mapped

Alicante

Where Alicante 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 152 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Santa Pola 19 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Valencia 📖 126 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,288 places mapped
10:00–23:00
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10%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
67h
open per week
25%
take a midday break
Shops & errands407 places mapped
09:00–21:30
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1%
open past midnight
41%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Services261 places mapped
08:30–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
12%
open on Sundays
59h
open per week
24%
take a midday break
6%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
64
umbrella days a year
14.7 m
of rain since 1981
3,039
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
312.9 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:45
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.8 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,298
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAlicante RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10% 200 of 1,878 🇮🇸 Reykjavik 10.1%🇺🇸 Tucson 10.1%🇺🇸 Warren 10.1%🇮🇳 Agra 10%Alicante🇺🇸 Antioch 10%🇳🇱 Eindhoven 10%🇺🇸 Fairland 10%🇵🇪 Huancayo 10%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 67 h 152 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Gillingham 67.2 h🇸🇪 Uppsala 67.2 h🇲🇽 Zapopan 67.2 h🇸🇻 Cojutepeque 67.1 hAlicante🇵🇪 Arequipa 67 h🇦🇷 Bahía Blanca 67 h🇵🇹 Coimbra 67 h🇵🇱 Gliwice 67 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.4% 358 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Maurepas 11.5%🇮🇹 Piacenza 11.5%🇮🇪 Waterford 11.5%🇲🇽 Zapopan 11.5%Alicante🇧🇬 Burgas 11.4%🇮🇷 Rasht 11.4%🇫🇷 Tours 11.4%🇸🇰 Žilina 11.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 25.2% 158 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Massa 25.4%🇯🇵 Nagano 25.4%🇮🇹 Chieti 25.3%🇪🇸 Mataró 25.3%Alicante🇮🇹 Rimini 25.2%🇮🇹 Civitanova Marche 25%🇯🇵 Kochi 25%🇮🇹 La Spezia 25%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.4% 217 of 1,878 🇲🇹 Valletta 1.5%🇭🇷 Zadar 1.5%🇵🇱 Zielona Góra 1.5%🇪🇸 A Coruña 1.4%Alicante🇵🇪 Arequipa 1.4%🇳🇱 Breda 1.4%🇺🇸 Campbell 1.4%🇨🇴 Cartagena 1.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 41.3% 403 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Girona 42.2%🇵🇱 Tarnów 42.2%🇪🇸 Benidorm 41.7%🇵🇱 Kielce 41.7%Alicante🇵🇱 Gorzów Wielkopolski 41.3%🇫🇷 Mulhouse 41.2%🇸🇰 Prešov 41.2%🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 40.9%

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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