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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🇮🇹 Italy · metro 456k · 1,596 venues mapped

Catania

Where Catania 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 76 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Acireale 15 km Nearest written profile 🇲🇹 Valletta 📖 184 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, Jun, 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 & drink1,596 places mapped
09:00–22:00
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8%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
86h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands708 places mapped
08:30–20:30
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
81h
open per week
7%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
4
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
80
umbrella days a year
24.8 m
of rain since 1981
3,976
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
29.1 km
to Etna
5.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:45
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.8 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
12,968
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCatania RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.3% 217 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Sochi 8.4%🇭🇷 Split 8.4%🇮🇹 Venice 8.4%🇺🇸 Boston 8.3%Catania🇫🇷 Chambéry 8.3%🇳🇱 Gouda 8.3%🇨🇺 Holguín 8.3%🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 8.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 86 h 76 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Greeley 86.5 h🇺🇸 Harrisburg 86.5 h🇷🇺 Vladimir 86.5 h🇷🇺 Voronezh 86.5 hCatania🇺🇸 Cedar Rapids 86 h🇺🇦 Chernivtsi 86 h🇮🇩 Denpasar 86 h🇺🇸 Eau Claire 86 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 12.2% 350 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Porto 12.3%🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 12.3%🇵🇱 Rybnik 12.3%🇷🇴 Timișoara 12.3%Catania🇧🇷 Ponta Porã 12.2%🇯🇵 Sano 12.2%🇯🇵 Shibata 12.2%🇪🇸 Girona 12.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 13.5% 258 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Valdemoro 13.8%🇦🇷 Bahía Blanca 13.6%🇳🇿 Christchurch 13.6%🇧🇪 Mechelen 13.6%Catania🇬🇧 Harlow 13.3%🇮🇳 Koyilandy 13.3%🇯🇵 Nagasaki 13.3%🇩🇪 Paderborn 13.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.6% 205 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 2.7%🇺🇸 Yakima 2.7%🇵🇱 Zakopane 2.7%🇬🇧 Bognor Regis 2.6%Catania🇺🇦 Chernivtsi 2.6%🇺🇸 Greeley 2.6%🇩🇪 Hildesheim 2.6%🇵🇪 Huaraz 2.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 92.1% 77 of 1,704 🇦🇷 San Miguel de Tucumán 92.3%🇭🇰 Sha Tin 92.3%🇬🇧 Harlow 92.2%🇺🇸 Albuquerque 92.1%Catania🇺🇸 Honolulu 92.1%🇱🇹 Kaunas 92.1%🇦🇴 Luanda 92.1%🇨🇦 Saskatoon 92.1%

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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