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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🇨🇦 Canada · metro 139k · 446 venues mapped

Barrie

Where Barrie 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 115 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Pickering 70 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 80 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 & drink446 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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9%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
76h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands138 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Services93 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
45%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
3
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
124
umbrella days a year
27.4 m
of rain since 1981
319
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2309.5 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:42
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.5 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,083
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBarrie RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.8% 212 of 1,878 🇭🇷 Osijek 8.9%🇺🇸 Spartanburg 8.9%🇱🇹 Vilnius 8.9%🇸🇪 Örebro 8.9%Barrie🇺🇦 Bila Tserkva 8.8%🇫🇷 Blois 8.8%🇦🇱 Durrës 8.8%🇪🇸 Granollers 8.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 76 h 115 of 1,878 🇨🇦 London 76.5 h🇪🇨 Puyo 76.5 h🇬🇧 Runcorn 76.5 h🇺🇸 Amarillo 76 hBarrie🇬🇧 Birmingham 76 h🇬🇧 Camberley 76 h🇺🇸 Chester 76 h🇺🇸 Durham 76 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.2% 290 of 1,878 🇨🇿 České Budějovice 18.3%🇹🇷 Adana 18.2%🇵🇾 Asuncion 18.2%🇬🇷 Athens 18.2%Barrie🇫🇷 Creil 18.2%🇬🇧 King's Lynn 18.2%🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 18.2%🇦🇺 Langwarrin 18.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.2% 372 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Vacaville 1.3%🇧🇷 Vitória 1.3%🇺🇸 Wheaton 1.3%🇷🇺 Abakan 1.2%Barrie🇺🇸 Bentonville 1.2%🇰🇷 Daegu 1.2%🇺🇸 Eugene 1.2%🇺🇸 Grand Rapids 1.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.9% 202 of 1,878 🇺🇸 York 3%🇺🇸 Appleton 2.9%🇺🇸 Asbury Park 2.9%🇵🇹 Aveiro 2.9%Barrie🇺🇸 Bethlehem 2.9%🇮🇹 Cagliari 2.9%🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 2.9%🇨🇳 Dalian 2.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 85.2% 135 of 1,704 🇷🇴 Brasov 85.4%🇳🇱 Bussum 85.3%🇬🇧 Newport 85.3%🇨🇱 Temuco 85.3%Barrie🇹🇯 Dushanbe 85.2%🇵🇹 Faro 85.2%🇨🇴 Riohacha 85%🇬🇧 Salisbury 85%

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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