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 49k · 301 venues mapped

Motril

Where Motril 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 85 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Almuñécar 16 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Málaga 📖 80 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink301 places mapped
10:00–23:30
0006121824
13%
open past midnight
73%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
35%
take a midday break
Shops & errands159 places mapped
09:00–21:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
40%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
38%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
3
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
57
umbrella days a year
17.3 m
of rain since 1981
2,978
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
239.8 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
3
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:02
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.7 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,517
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMotril RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.6% 174 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Bridgend 12.6%🇳🇱 Hoofddorp 12.6%🇺🇸 Jacksonville 12.6%🇮🇹 Livorno 12.6%Motril🇺🇸 Spokane 12.6%🇺🇸 Abilene 12.5%🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 12.5%🇪🇸 Avilés 12.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 56 h 197 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Marl 56 h🇯🇵 Marugame 56 h🇦🇺 Melbourne 56 h🇮🇹 Mestre 56 hMotril🇲🇽 Mérida 56 h🇬🇧 Newport 56 h🇦🇺 Point Cook 56 h🇲🇺 Port Louis 56 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 23.4% 243 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Tallahassee 23.5%🇮🇹 Tivoli 23.5%🇺🇸 Dunwoody 23.4%🇺🇸 Lansing 23.4%Motril🇪🇸 Almeria 23.3%🇭🇺 Debrecen 23.3%🇰🇪 Ngong 23.3%🇵🇭 Agoo 23.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 35.1% 85 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Quimper 35.6%🇫🇷 Bayonne 35.4%🇪🇸 Cádiz 35.3%🇮🇹 Cagliari 35.2%Motril🇫🇷 La Rochelle 35%🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 34.9%🇫🇷 Nimes 34.8%🇦🇹 Lustenau 34.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Modena 0%🇰🇷 Mokpo 0%🇫🇷 Montauban 0%🇫🇷 Montbéliard 0%Motril🇫🇷 Mulhouse 0%🇪🇸 Málaga 0%🇲🇽 Mérida 0%🇯🇵 Nagasaki 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 40.4% 407 of 1,704 🇸🇰 Prešov 41.2%🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 40.9%🇪🇸 Logroño 40.5%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 40.5%Motril🇪🇸 Zaragoza 40.4%🇨🇭 Lausanne 40.3%🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 40%🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 39.6%

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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