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 148k · 952 venues mapped

Cambridge

Where Cambridge 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 109 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Kitchener 18 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 83 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink952 places mapped
11:00–22:30
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17%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
7%
open 24/7
Shops & errands314 places mapped
08:00–21:00
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1%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Services183 places mapped
09:00–20:00
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3%
open past midnight
39%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
4
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
135
umbrella days a year
33.1 m
of rain since 1981
698
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2252.7 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:48
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,114
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCambridge RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 17% 131 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Cincinnati 17.1%🇰🇷 Jeonju 17.1%🇺🇸 Saint Cloud 17.1%🇵🇹 Vila Real 17.1%Cambridge🇱🇺 Luxembourg 17%🇺🇸 Hamilton 16.9%🇮🇹 Asti 16.7%🇦🇷 La Plata 16.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77.5 h 109 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Torrejón de Ardoz 78 h🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 78 h🇱🇦 Vientiane 78 h🇪🇸 Valdemoro 77.8 hCambridge🇺🇸 Chattanooga 77.5 h🇺🇸 Eugene 77.5 h🇺🇸 Redding 77.5 h🇧🇬 Sofia 77.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.5% 377 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Vienna 9.6%🇲🇾 Alor Setar 9.5%🇬🇧 Ashford 9.5%🇨🇿 Brno 9.5%Cambridge🇨🇩 Kinshasa 9.5%🇯🇵 Matsuyama 9.5%🇫🇷 Poissy 9.5%🇨🇳 Suzhou 9.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.1% 353 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Los Angeles 3.2%🇳🇮 Managua 3.2%🇺🇸 Syracuse 3.2%🇬🇧 Wigan 3.2%Cambridge🇺🇸 Chattanooga 3.1%🇨🇿 Frýdek-Místek 3.1%🇳🇱 Hoorn 3.1%🇬🇧 Leeds 3.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.7% 164 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Paranoá 6.8%🇮🇩 Pekanbaru 6.8%🇺🇸 Phoenix 6.8%🇹🇭 Bangkok 6.7%Cambridge🇨🇴 Duitama 6.7%🇲🇾 Ipoh 6.7%🇮🇳 Koyilandy 6.7%🇧🇷 Lago Norte 6.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 87.8% 115 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Hereford 87.9%🇲🇺 Port Louis 87.9%🇵🇹 Viseu 87.9%🇬🇧 Warrington 87.9%Cambridge🇮🇳 Chennai 87.8%🇬🇧 Elland 87.8%🇬🇧 Kidderminster 87.8%🇺🇸 Salem 87.8%

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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