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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 175k · 921 venues mapped

Erfurt

Where Erfurt 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 195 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Jena 39 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇪 Berlin 📖 237 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink921 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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3%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
11%
take a midday break
Shops & errands485 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
24%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
Culture315 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
44%
open on Sundays
38h
open per week
Services159 places mapped
08:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
6%
open on Sundays
53h
open per week
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
141
umbrella days a year
29.9 m
of rain since 1981
309
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
308.7 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:12
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,702
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureErfurt RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.1% 269 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Adelaide 3.1%🇳🇱 Bussum 3.1%🇻🇪 Caracas 3.1%🇩🇪 Dresden 3.1%Erfurt🇮🇷 Karaj 3.1%🇯🇵 Takayama 3.1%🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 3%🇩🇰 Esbjerg 3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 56.5 h 195 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Wuppertal 57 h🇬🇧 Bournemouth 56.8 h🇮🇪 Kilkenny 56.8 h🇮🇹 Treviso 56.8 hErfurt🇩🇪 Oldenburg 56.5 h🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 56.5 h🇬🇧 Littlehampton 56.2 h🇩🇰 Aalborg 56 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.5% 417 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Tlalnepantla 5.6%🇫🇷 Troyes 5.6%🇨🇳 Wenjiang 5.6%🇩🇪 Bremen 5.5%Erfurt🇩🇪 Leipzig 5.5%🇫🇷 Nantes 5.5%🇹🇭 Pattaya 5.5%🇷🇺 Stavropol 5.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 11.4% 276 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Northampton 11.7%🇩🇪 Dresden 11.6%🇩🇪 Reinbek 11.5%🇵🇹 Amora 11.4%Erfurt🇩🇪 Essen 11.4%🇯🇵 Sendai 11.4%🇩🇿 Algiers 11.3%🇬🇧 Basingstoke 11.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.9% 222 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Coimbra 0.9%🇳🇱 Dordrecht 0.9%🇩🇪 Dortmund 0.9%🇩🇪 Dusseldorf 0.9%Erfurt🇵🇹 Funchal 0.9%🇬🇧 Guildford 0.9%🇺🇸 Hazel Park 0.9%🇸🇪 Helsingborg 0.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 24.4% 483 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Lippstadt 24.7%🇩🇪 Offenburg 24.7%🇦🇹 Lustenau 24.6%🇨🇭 Aarau 24.5%Erfurt🇩🇪 Gerlingen 24.4%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 24.3%🇩🇪 Mannheim 24.2%🇪🇸 Valladolid 24.2%

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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