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 84k · 553 venues mapped

Maple Ridge

Where Maple Ridge 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 80 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 White Rock 26 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Vancouver 📖 38 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink553 places mapped
10:00–22:00
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8%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands170 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Services108 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
26%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
Culture90 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
64h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
197
umbrella days a year
64.1 m
of rain since 1981
208
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
3
volcanoes within 100 km
75.7 km
to Baker
1.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:15
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.2 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
14,864
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMaple Ridge RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.3% 217 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Gouda 8.3%🇨🇺 Holguín 8.3%🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 8.3%🇧🇷 Lago Norte 8.3%Maple Ridge🇯🇵 Mito 8.3%🇷🇺 Nalchik 8.3%🇵🇹 Setúbal 8.3%🇹🇭 Udon Thani 8.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 74.7 h 122 of 1,878 🇸🇰 Trenčín 75 h🇵🇪 Trujillo 75 h🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 75 h🇸🇰 Banská Bystrica 74.8 hMaple Ridge🇨🇦 Milton 74.5 h🇵🇪 Cusco 74.2 h🇬🇧 Maidenhead 74.2 h🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen 74.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 17.1% 301 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Graz 17.1%🇨🇦 Guelph 17.1%🇰🇷 Jeonju 17.1%🇮🇶 Karbala 17.1%Maple Ridge🇲🇽 Morelia 17.1%🇮🇹 Rome 17.1%🇬🇧 Royal Tunbridge Wells 17.1%🇭🇺 Szombathely 17%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.1% 353 of 1,878 🇨🇿 Frýdek-Místek 3.1%🇳🇱 Hoorn 3.1%🇬🇧 Leeds 3.1%🇮🇳 Lucknow 3.1%Maple Ridge🇬🇧 Margate 3.1%🇨🇦 Milton 3.1%🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 3.1%🇳🇦 Windhoek 3.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7.8% 153 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Dothan 7.8%🇺🇸 Florence 7.8%🇷🇴 Giurgiu 7.8%🇷🇺 Izhevsk 7.8%Maple Ridge🇹🇳 Tunis 7.8%🇺🇸 Arlington 7.7%🇺🇸 Atlanta 7.7%🇨🇳 Beijing 7.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 91.8% 80 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Yuma 92%🇸🇪 Örebro 92%🇦🇷 Resistencia 91.9%🇵🇭 Bamban 91.8%Maple Ridge🇬🇧 St Albans 91.8%🇮🇹 Acireale 91.7%🇬🇧 Aylesbury 91.7%🇫🇮 Joensuu 91.7%

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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