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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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
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East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇨🇦 Canada · metro 1.5M · 2,730 venues mapped

Calgary

Where Calgary 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 70 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Calgary in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇨🇦 Airdrie 28 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Vancouver 📖 674 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Best time to visit Jul, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink2,730 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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11%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands725 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
21%
open 24/7
Services463 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
34%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
Culture309 places mapped
09:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
61h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
116
umbrella days a year
24.1 m
of rain since 1981
161
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
430.7 km
to Wells Gray-Clearwater
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:32
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.6 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
15,457
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCalgary RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.3% 187 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Tours 11.4%🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 11.3%🇩🇪 Bocholt 11.3%🇮🇹 Brescia 11.3%Calgary🇺🇸 Denver 11.3%🇺🇸 Lexington 11.3%🇨🇭 Lugano 11.3%🇲🇽 Monterrey 11.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 72 h 133 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Barranquilla 72 h🇫🇷 Bastia 72 h🇮🇹 Bergamo 72 h🇸🇰 Bratislava 72 hCalgary🇰🇷 Daegu 72 h🇵🇦 David 72 h🇺🇸 Easton 72 h🇯🇵 Fukuoka 72 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.1% 291 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Pesaro 18.2%🇲🇾 Rawang 18.2%🇨🇴 Rionegro 18.2%🇨🇦 Saskatoon 18.2%Calgary🇹🇭 Phitsanulok 18.1%🇷🇴 Râmnicu Vâlcea 18.1%🇮🇹 La Spezia 18%🇦🇴 Luanda 18%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2% 364 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Surakarta 2.1%🇲🇦 Tangier 2.1%🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 2.1%🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 2%Calgary🇺🇸 Colorado Springs 2%🇺🇸 Cookeville 2%🇺🇸 Evansville 2%🇺🇸 Iowa City 2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.7% 184 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Abilene 4.7%🇬🇧 Belfast 4.7%🇺🇸 Bloomington 4.7%🇬🇧 Bury St Edmunds 4.7%Calgary🇺🇸 Edmond 4.7%🇬🇧 Gloucester 4.7%🇺🇸 Hartford 4.7%🇹🇼 Hsinchu 4.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 92.9% 70 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Southampton 93%🇱🇹 Šiauliai 93%🇮🇳 Attingal 92.9%🇮🇳 Bengaluru 92.9%Calgary🇨🇴 Cartagena 92.9%🇺🇸 Cheyenne 92.9%🇦🇺 Hobart 92.9%🇬🇧 Maidstone 92.9%

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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