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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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 125k · 644 venues mapped

Doncaster

Where Doncaster 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Pontefract 22 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 234 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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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 & drink644 places mapped
08:45–22:30
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12%
open past midnight
78%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
16%
open 24/7
Shops & errands253 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
102h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Services131 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
34%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
157
umbrella days a year
32.8 m
of rain since 1981
6
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
662.4 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:47
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,553
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDoncaster RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.8% 182 of 1,878 🇧🇬 Varna 11.9%🇸🇾 Aleppo 11.8%🇺🇸 Arlington 11.8%🇺🇸 Colorado Springs 11.8%Doncaster🇨🇦 Edmonton 11.8%🇺🇸 Evansville 11.8%🇧🇷 Florianópolis 11.8%🇸🇪 Gävle 11.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 75 h 120 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Lublin 75.2 h🇬🇧 Barry 75 h🇦🇷 Cipolletti 75 h🇺🇸 Corvallis 75 hDoncaster🇹🇿 Mwanza 75 h🇪🇸 Pamplona 75 h🇬🇧 Pontefract 75 h🇵🇹 Porto 75 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 19.6% 277 of 1,878 🇷🇸 Novi Sad 19.7%🇮🇩 Ubud 19.7%🇮🇹 Caserta 19.6%🇺🇸 Champaign 19.6%Doncaster🇲🇴 Macau 19.6%🇻🇳 Phan Thiết 19.6%🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 19.5%🇬🇧 Crawley 19.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 11.8% 272 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Colchester 11.9%🇩🇪 Görlitz 11.9%🇴🇲 Muscat 11.9%🇮🇹 Taranto 11.9%Doncaster🇧🇷 Manaus 11.8%🇲🇺 Port Louis 11.8%🇧🇿 San Pedro 11.8%🇪🇸 Tarifa 11.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 15.7% 82 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Riohacha 15.9%🇹🇷 Yalova 15.9%🇷🇴 Târgoviște 15.8%🇨🇴 Yopal 15.8%Doncaster🇯🇵 Kishiwada 15.7%🇰🇿 Aktobe 15.6%🇨🇺 Havana 15.5%🇨🇦 Airdrie 15.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇲🇽 Culiacán 100%🇺🇸 Davenport 100%🇹🇷 Denizli 100%🇶🇦 Doha 100%Doncaster🇺🇸 Dothan 100%🇬🇧 Eastleigh 100%🇺🇸 Eau Claire 100%🇺🇸 Erie 100%

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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