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 138k · 863 venues mapped

Mataró

Where Mataró 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 157 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Granollers 15 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Barcelona 📖 29 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 — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink863 places mapped
12:00–23:00
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7%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
25%
take a midday break
Shops & errands346 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
47%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
25%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Services207 places mapped
08:30–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
29%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
38%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
27
muggy days a year
4
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
109
umbrella days a year
30.9 m
of rain since 1981
312
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
70.2 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:24
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.2 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,134
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMataró RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.2% 228 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Umeå 7.3%🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 7.2%🇮🇹 Cuneo 7.2%🇺🇸 Grand Junction 7.2%Mataró🇺🇸 Poway 7.2%🇩🇪 Rosenheim 7.2%🇹🇼 Tainan 7.2%🇨🇦 White Rock 7.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 42 h 256 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Cuiabá 42 h🇧🇷 Florianópolis 42 h🇧🇪 Kortrijk 42 h🇧🇪 La Louvière 42 hMataró🇧🇷 Natal 42 h🇦🇷 Resistencia 42 h🇧🇷 Santa Maria 42 h🇵🇪 Tacna 42 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.4% 388 of 1,878 🇰🇷 Seoul 8.5%🇷🇴 Brasov 8.4%🇵🇱 Gdynia 8.4%🇵🇱 Krakow 8.4%Mataró🇷🇺 Podolsk 8.4%🇷🇺 Tomsk 8.4%🇧🇪 Brussels 8.3%🇲🇽 Cuernavaca 8.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 25.3% 157 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Gijón 25.4%🇮🇹 Massa 25.4%🇯🇵 Nagano 25.4%🇮🇹 Chieti 25.3%Mataró🇪🇸 Alicante 25.2%🇮🇹 Rimini 25.2%🇮🇹 Civitanova Marche 25%🇯🇵 Kochi 25%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.2% 219 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Le Mans 1.2%🇺🇸 Lynchburg 1.2%🇳🇱 Maastricht 1.2%🇫🇷 Marseille 1.2%Mataró🇫🇷 Rennes 1.2%🇺🇸 Rochester 1.2%🇺🇸 Santa Fe 1.2%🇫🇷 Tours 1.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 47.2% 384 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Cádiz 47.7%🇪🇸 Marbella 47.6%🇮🇹 Imperia 47.5%🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 47.4%Mataró🇫🇷 Rennes 47%🇫🇷 Quimper 46.6%🇮🇹 Ancona 46.2%🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 46.1%

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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