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 1.7M · 7,079 venues mapped

Hamburg

Where Hamburg 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 181 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Reinbek 17 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇪 Berlin 📖 255 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Hamburg 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 & drink7,079 places mapped
11:00–22:00
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
Shops & errands3,485 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
31%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Culture1,677 places mapped
10:00–18:30
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
28%
open on Sundays
25h
open per week
Services1,258 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
7%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
10%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
158
umbrella days a year
35 m
of rain since 1981
46
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
433.4 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:02
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,822
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureHamburg RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.5% 245 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Zurich 5.6%🇩🇪 Bamberg 5.5%🇧🇳 Bandar Seri Begawan 5.5%🇦🇺 Brisbane 5.5%Hamburg🇫🇷 Marignane 5.5%🇩🇪 Osnabrück 5.5%🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen 5.5%🇬🇧 Southampton 5.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 60 h 181 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Dundee 60 h🇯🇵 Echizen 60 h🇩🇪 Essen 60 h🇪🇸 Gandia 60 hHamburg🇯🇵 Hirosaki 60 h🇳🇱 Hoofddorp 60 h🇦🇹 Innsbruck 60 h🇮🇹 La Spezia 60 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.7% 395 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 7.8%🇦🇷 Cordoba 7.7%🇫🇷 Douai 7.7%🇩🇪 Gerlingen 7.7%Hamburg🇩🇪 Hennigsdorf 7.7%🇯🇵 Kagoshima 7.7%🇸🇪 Karlstad 7.7%🇮🇳 Kolkata 7.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 7.8% 306 of 1,878 🇨🇲 Yaoundé 7.9%🇬🇧 Cardiff 7.8%🇺🇸 Concord 7.8%🇬🇧 Falkirk 7.8%Hamburg🇹🇳 Hammamet 7.7%🇯🇵 Isesaki 7.7%🇯🇵 Kagoshima 7.7%🇯🇵 Niigata 7.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.8% 223 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Chester 0.8%🇫🇷 Dijon 0.8%🇺🇸 Escondido 0.8%🇧🇪 Frameries 0.8%Hamburg🇩🇪 Leipzig 0.8%🇫🇷 Limoges 0.8%🇮🇹 Lucca 0.8%🇩🇪 Lüneburg 0.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 31.3% 441 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Oldenburg 32.3%🇨🇭 Olten 31.9%🇸🇮 Ljubljana 31.7%🇪🇸 Bilbao 31.4%Hamburg🇲🇪 Podgorica 31.1%🇪🇸 Albacete 31%🇩🇪 Göttingen 31%🇩🇪 Tübingen 31%

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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