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
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇨🇳 China · metro 3.6M · 455 venues mapped

Dalian

Where Dalian 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 82 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇳 Jiangshan 266 km Nearest written profile 🇰🇷 Seoul 📖 493 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink455 places mapped
09:00–21:30
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands222 places mapped
09:30–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
79h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
59
muggy days a year
17
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
83
umbrella days a year
30.5 m
of rain since 1981
34
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
561.3 km
to Longgang Group
0.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:35
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.9 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
7,902
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDalian RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.7% 243 of 1,878 🇺🇸 The Woodlands 5.8%🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 5.8%🇺🇸 Wilmington 5.8%🇨🇭 Winterthur 5.8%Dalian🇬🇧 Gloucester 5.7%🇯🇵 Hirosaki 5.7%🇹🇼 Hsinchu 5.7%🇻🇳 Huế 5.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇬🇷 Corfu 84 h🇷🇴 Craiova 84 h🇰🇷 Daejeon 84 h🇸🇳 Dakar 84 hDalian🇺🇸 Des Moines 84 h🇺🇦 Dnipro 84 h🇺🇦 Donetsk 84 h🇨🇦 Edmonton 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 14.3% 329 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Toluca 14.5%🇬🇧 Wishaw 14.5%🇹🇷 Istanbul 14.4%🇬🇧 Coleraine 14.3%Dalian🇧🇷 Joinville 14.3%🇹🇷 Konya 14.3%🇵🇭 Puerto Princesa 14.3%🇮🇷 Qazvin 14.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.9% 355 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Albany 2.9%🇺🇸 Bozeman 2.9%🇺🇸 College Station 2.9%🇩🇰 Copenhagen 2.9%Dalian🇿🇦 Durban 2.9%🇨🇦 Hamilton 2.9%🇬🇧 Leicester 2.9%🇨🇦 London 2.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.9% 202 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Barrie 2.9%🇺🇸 Bethlehem 2.9%🇮🇹 Cagliari 2.9%🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 2.9%Dalian🇪🇸 Dos Hermanas 2.9%🇦🇺 Geelong 2.9%🇺🇸 Greensboro 2.9%🇭🇰 Hong Kong 2.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 86.7% 124 of 1,704 🇲🇽 Mexico City 87%🇨🇦 Regina 86.8%🇺🇸 Ames 86.7%🇮🇹 Civitanova Marche 86.7%Dalian🇲🇽 Guadalupe 86.7%🇯🇵 Komatsu 86.7%🇲🇽 Mexicali 86.7%🇺🇸 Santa Fe 86.7%

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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