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
Tools

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Compare two cities Head-to-head on absurd terms only. No GDP, no cappuccino index. The year, month by month Where to be in each month, who has the most days off, and when the airports peak. Start from a goal Eat well at 2 a.m. · Work all day from a café — ranked by what the city keeps open.
How this is made

Every figure on this site states where it came from and what it cannot tell you.

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Method & principles What we measure, what we refuse to guess, and why rhythm is never a claim about people. Sources Every corpus behind the atlas, with its licence. Books coming soon The long-form city profiles and the method book. Contact · request a city Tell us what the atlas is missing.
The index

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

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Southern Europe21
RomeMilanBarcelonaMadridAthensLisbon
Western Europe20
LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇪🇸 Spain · metro 176k · 543 venues mapped

Almeria

Where Almeria places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is vanish at lunch, where it ranks 2 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Roquetas de Mar 16 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Málaga 📖 175 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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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 & drink543 places mapped
12:00–24:00
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9%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
54%
take a midday break
Shops & errands271 places mapped
09:00–21:30
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0%
open past midnight
31%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Services148 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
23%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
14%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
2
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
51
umbrella days a year
10.6 m
of rain since 1981
2,564
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
264.2 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
3
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:57
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.7 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,428
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAlmeria RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.3% 207 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Rouen 9.4%🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 9.4%🇵🇱 Tarnów 9.4%🇺🇸 Albany 9.3%Almeria🇦🇹 Dornbirn 9.3%🇺🇸 Durham 9.3%🇨🇦 Guelph 9.3%🇨🇿 Jihlava 9.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 59.5 h 183 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Kempten (Allgäu) 59.8 h🇵🇹 Lagos 59.8 h🇬🇧 Newbury 59.8 h🇫🇷 Ajaccio 59.5 hAlmeria🇳🇱 Amsterdam 59.5 h🇦🇺 Brisbane 59.5 h🇨🇴 Cali 59.5 h🇬🇧 Falkirk 59.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 23.3% 244 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Tivoli 23.5%🇺🇸 Dunwoody 23.4%🇺🇸 Lansing 23.4%🇪🇸 Motril 23.4%Almeria🇭🇺 Debrecen 23.3%🇰🇪 Ngong 23.3%🇵🇭 Agoo 23.1%🇨🇦 Airdrie 23.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 53.5% 2 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Vichy 54.2%Almeria🇮🇹 Aosta 52.9%🇫🇷 Bourges 52.9%🇫🇷 Sète 52.9%🇫🇷 Niort 52.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Albi 0%🇵🇹 Albufeira 0%🇮🇹 Alessandria 0%🇮🇹 Alghero 0%Almeria🇪🇨 Ambato 0%🇫🇷 Amiens 0%🇵🇹 Amora 0%🇮🇹 Ancona 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 30.8% 445 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Albacete 31%🇩🇪 Göttingen 31%🇩🇪 Tübingen 31%🇪🇸 A Coruña 30.9%Almeria🇪🇸 Talavera de la Reina 30.8%🇩🇪 Wuppertal 30.8%🇨🇭 Thun 30.7%🇨🇭 Winterthur 30.7%

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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