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
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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 113k · 1,172 venues mapped

Erlangen

Where Erlangen 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 171 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Bamberg 35 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇪 Munich 📖 167 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Erlangen does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,172 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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4%
open past midnight
69%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
24%
take a midday break
Shops & errands503 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
21%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
Culture299 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
29%
open on Sundays
13h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
Services246 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
4%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
26%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
140
umbrella days a year
32.8 m
of rain since 1981
351
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
304.8 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:18
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.3 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,672
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureErlangen RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.9% 261 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Spring Valley 4%🇯🇵 Tokushima 4%🇫🇷 Troyes 4%🇭🇰 Tuen Mun 4%Erlangen🇦🇺 Hobart 3.9%🇧🇪 Kortrijk 3.9%🇷🇺 Penza 3.9%🇵🇱 Toruń 3.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 54 h 207 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Aalen 54 h🇨🇱 Antofagasta 54 h🇩🇪 Darmstadt 54 h🇦🇹 Dornbirn 54 hErlangen🇩🇪 Flensburg 54 h🇩🇪 Freilassing 54 h🇯🇵 Fujikawaguchiko 54 h🇦🇺 Geelong 54 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.2% 340 of 1,878 🇹🇼 Miaoli 13.3%🇯🇵 Nagasaki 13.3%🇦🇹 Villach 13.3%🇨🇭 Aarau 13.2%Erlangen🇸🇪 Stockholm 13.2%🇬🇧 Folkestone 13.1%🇮🇹 Imola 13.1%🇪🇸 Vilanova i la Geltrú 13.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 23.7% 171 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Gießen 24%🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 24%🇩🇪 Ravensburg 23.9%🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 23.8%Erlangen🇫🇷 Marignane 23.6%🇮🇹 Ravenna 23.6%🇩🇪 Augsburg 23.5%🇪🇸 Málaga 23.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.4% 227 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Brescia 0.4%🇧🇪 Charleroi 0.4%🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 0.4%🇩🇰 Copenhagen 0.4%Erlangen🇩🇪 Flensburg 0.4%🇵🇱 Gdynia 0.4%🇩🇪 Kiel 0.4%🇩🇪 Krefeld 0.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 20.9% 509 of 1,704 🇦🇹 Vienna 21.3%🇩🇪 Würzburg 21.3%🇩🇪 Lüdenscheid 21.2%🇩🇪 Gießen 21.1%Erlangen🇩🇪 Göppingen 20.7%🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 20.5%🇩🇪 Siegen 20.4%🇩🇪 Ingolstadt 20.1%

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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