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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🇨🇦 Canada · metro 446k · 1,462 venues mapped

Hamilton

Where Hamilton places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 60 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Milton 30 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 62 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,462 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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14%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
74h
open per week
7%
open 24/7
Shops & errands463 places mapped
08:00–21:00
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2%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
94h
open per week
27%
open 24/7
Services328 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
43%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
Culture132 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
41%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
7%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
5
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
139
umbrella days a year
32.8 m
of rain since 1981
1,085
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2290 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:47
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,152
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureHamilton RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 13.6% 164 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Ancona 13.7%🇮🇶 Baghdad 13.6%🇺🇸 El Paso 13.6%🇮🇱 Haifa 13.6%Hamilton🇿🇼 Harare 13.6%🇳🇴 Oslo 13.6%🇮🇹 Pesaro 13.6%🇺🇸 Rockford 13.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 73.5 h 127 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Almada 73.5 h🇺🇦 Druzhkivka 73.5 h🇳🇮 Granada 73.5 h🇰🇷 Gwangju 73.5 hHamilton🇵🇪 Huancayo 73.5 h🇵🇹 Lisbon 73.5 h🇬🇧 London 73.5 h🇲🇴 Macau 73.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10% 372 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Plymouth 10.1%🇯🇵 Akashi 10%🇪🇨 Ambato 10%🇯🇵 Hamamatsu 10%Hamilton🇨🇳 Kunming 10%🇨🇱 La Serena 10%🇧🇷 Lago Norte 10%🇦🇹 Linz 10%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.9% 355 of 1,878 🇺🇸 College Station 2.9%🇩🇰 Copenhagen 2.9%🇨🇳 Dalian 2.9%🇿🇦 Durban 2.9%Hamilton🇬🇧 Leicester 2.9%🇨🇦 London 2.9%🇬🇧 Manchester 2.9%🇬🇧 Mansfield 2.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7.4% 157 of 1,878 🇮🇷 Tabriz 7.5%🇷🇴 Arad 7.4%🇹🇷 Bursa 7.4%🇲🇦 Essaouira 7.4%Hamilton🇨🇳 Harbin 7.4%🇺🇸 Huntington Station 7.4%🇯🇵 Osaka 7.4%🇲🇾 Rawang 7.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.9% 60 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Charlottesville 94%🇺🇸 Fort Collins 94%🇺🇸 Greensboro 94%🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 94%Hamilton🇬🇧 High Wycombe 93.9%🇺🇸 Iowa City 93.9%🇸🇦 Jeddah 93.9%🇬🇧 Nottingham 93.9%

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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