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 112k · 656 venues mapped

Cartagena

Where Cartagena 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 95 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Murcia 45 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Valencia 📖 215 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink656 places mapped
11:00–23:00
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13%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
58h
open per week
33%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands211 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
36%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
15%
take a midday break
Services191 places mapped
09:00–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
6%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
Culture139 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
29h
open per week
56%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
23
muggy days a year
11
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
53
umbrella days a year
12.4 m
of rain since 1981
1,511
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
300.3 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
1
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:49
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.8 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,321
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCartagena RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 13.3% 167 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Veenendaal 13.4%🇯🇵 Akashi 13.3%🇹🇷 Ankara 13.3%🇨🇭 Bern 13.3%Cartagena🇦🇷 Cipolletti 13.3%🇭🇷 Dubrovnik 13.3%🇫🇷 Les Sables-d'Olonne 13.3%🇺🇸 Louisville 13.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57.5 h 191 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Culiacán 57.8 h🇫🇷 Valenciennes 57.8 h🇩🇪 Würzburg 57.8 h🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 57.5 hCartagena🇩🇪 Munich 57.5 h🇵🇹 Évora 57.5 h🇪🇸 Castelldefels 57.2 h🇩🇪 Stuttgart 57.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.3% 339 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Nottingham 13.4%🇬🇧 Swansea 13.4%🇯🇵 Asahikawa 13.3%🇬🇧 Bedford 13.3%Cartagena🇦🇷 Cipolletti 13.3%🇪🇸 Cáceres 13.3%🇱🇺 Luxembourg 13.3%🇹🇼 Miaoli 13.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 33.3% 95 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Tours 33.7%🇵🇹 Évora 33.6%🇮🇹 Pisa 33.5%🇮🇹 Asti 33.3%Cartagena🇪🇸 Cáceres 33.3%🇮🇹 L'Aquila 33.3%🇫🇷 Le Mans 33.3%🇦🇷 Resistencia 33.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.3% 198 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Tyumen 3.4%🇧🇬 Varna 3.4%🇷🇺 Vladimir 3.4%🇮🇱 Yavne 3.4%Cartagena🇳🇿 Christchurch 3.3%🇺🇸 Davenport 3.3%🇬🇧 Elland 3.3%🇬🇧 Grays 3.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 36.4% 421 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Ferrol 37.3%🇪🇸 Pamplona 37.1%🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 36.9%🇪🇸 Granada 36.5%Cartagena🇨🇭 Bern 36.1%🇪🇸 Dénia 36.1%🇪🇸 Santander 36%🇸🇮 Maribor 35.9%

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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