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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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇨🇦 Canada · metro 228k · 1,066 venues mapped

Halifax

Where Halifax 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 139 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Charlottetown 180 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Montreal 📖 791 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Halifax 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 & drink1,066 places mapped
10:00–22:00
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8%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands340 places mapped
08:30–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
74h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Services211 places mapped
09:00–18:45
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0%
open past midnight
48%
open on Sundays
55h
open per week
Culture184 places mapped
09:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
38%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
155
umbrella days a year
55.8 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2205.5 km
to Pico Fracture Zone
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:37
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.6 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,603
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureHalifax RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.9% 221 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Taunton 8%🇬🇧 Warrington 8%🇫🇷 Cergy 7.9%🇺🇸 Cinco Ranch 7.9%Halifax🇵🇪 Huaraz 7.9%🇺🇸 Lubbock 7.9%🇮🇩 Semarang 7.9%🇺🇸 Sherwood 7.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Glasgow 70 h🇬🇧 Gloucester 70 h🇵🇱 Gorzów Wielkopolski 70 h🇭🇺 Gyor 70 hHalifax🇯🇵 Hiroshima 70 h🇺🇸 Honolulu 70 h🇹🇼 Hsinchu 70 h🇰🇷 Jeonju 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 21% 264 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Modena 21.1%🇮🇶 Mosul 21.1%🇮🇳 Visakhapatnam 21.1%🇨🇴 Yopal 21.1%Halifax🇲🇾 Ipoh 21%🇲🇲 Twante 21%🇮🇹 Chieti 20.9%🇮🇩 Malang 20.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.4% 380 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Białystok 0.4%🇧🇾 Brest 0.4%🇺🇸 Brockton 0.4%🇺🇸 Fall River 0.4%Halifax🇷🇺 Kaliningrad 0.4%🇺🇸 Memphis 0.4%🇸🇰 Prešov 0.4%🇺🇸 Reading 0.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.2% 179 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Bydgoszcz 5.2%🇬🇧 Crewe 5.2%🇺🇸 Flint 5.2%🇹🇷 Gölbaşı 5.2%Halifax🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne 5.2%🇯🇵 Okayama 5.2%🇨🇦 Quebec 5.2%🇰🇭 Siem Reap 5.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 83% 152 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Piacenza 83.3%🇮🇹 Ravenna 83.3%🇫🇷 Poissy 83.1%🇹🇳 Tunis 83.1%Halifax🇮🇹 Lecco 83%🇰🇪 Nairobi 83%🇨🇦 St. John's 83%🇺🇸 Amarillo 82.9%

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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