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
Tools

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Compare two cities Head-to-head on absurd terms only. No GDP, no cappuccino index. The year, month by month Where to be in each month, who has the most days off, and when the airports peak. Start from a goal Eat well at 2 a.m. · Work all day from a café — ranked by what the city keeps open.
How this is made

Every figure on this site states where it came from and what it cannot tell you.

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Method & principles What we measure, what we refuse to guess, and why rhythm is never a claim about people. Sources Every corpus behind the atlas, with its licence. Books coming soon The long-form city profiles and the method book. Contact · request a city Tell us what the atlas is missing.
The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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Southern Europe21
RomeMilanBarcelonaMadridAthensLisbon
Western Europe20
LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇪🇸 Spain · metro 59k · 1,062 venues mapped

Ferrol

Where Ferrol 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 75 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 A Coruña 18 km Nearest written profile 🇵🇹 Porto 📖 261 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, Jul, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,062 places mapped
09:00–23:00
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11%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
Shops & errands339 places mapped
09:00–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
37%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
25%
take a midday break
Culture227 places mapped
09:00–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
29%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
41%
take a midday break
12%
open 24/7
Services188 places mapped
09:00–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
18%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
33%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
150
umbrella days a year
48.7 m
of rain since 1981
193
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
622.4 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:00
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
15,031
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureFerrol RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.2% 188 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Ryazan 11.3%🇰🇷 Seoul 11.3%🇷🇺 Surgut 11.3%🇺🇸 York 11.3%Ferrol🇺🇸 Holland 11.2%🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 11.2%🇫🇷 Limoges 11.2%🇷🇺 Omsk 11.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 73.2 h 128 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 73.5 h🇭🇺 Szeged 73.5 h🇪🇪 Tallinn 73.5 h🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 73.5 hFerrol🇪🇸 Ibiza 73.2 h🇺🇸 Anchorage 73 h🇺🇸 Asheville 73 h🇨🇦 Fredericton 73 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 16.4% 308 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Johor Bahru 16.6%🇬🇧 Leicester 16.6%🇨🇾 Larnaca 16.5%🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 16.5%Ferrol🇨🇿 Ostrava 16.4%🇬🇧 St Albans 16.4%🇺🇸 Charleston 16.3%🇦🇪 Dubai 16.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 36.2% 75 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Frameries 37%🇪🇸 León 36.9%🇫🇷 Chambéry 36.6%🇪🇸 San Fernando 36.4%Ferrol🇮🇹 Udine 36.2%🇫🇷 Paris 36.1%🇫🇷 Belfort 36%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 36%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇩🇰 Esbjerg 0%🇺🇸 Evansville 0%🇺🇸 Fall River 0%🇮🇹 Ferrara 0%Ferrol🇮🇹 Follonica 0%🇺🇸 Fort Wayne 0%🇩🇪 Freilassing 0%🇨🇿 Frýdek-Místek 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 37.3% 417 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Trento 38.3%🇩🇪 Münster 37.6%🇨🇭 Locarno 37.5%🇧🇦 Mostar 37.5%Ferrol🇪🇸 Pamplona 37.1%🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 36.9%🇪🇸 Granada 36.5%🇪🇸 Cartagena 36.4%

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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