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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🇩🇿 Algeria · metro 1.3M · 250 venues mapped

Oran

Where Oran 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 41 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Almeria 207 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Málaga 📖 358 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink250 places mapped
10:00–23:00
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10%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
88h
open per week
13%
open 24/7
Services187 places mapped
08:30–16:30
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2%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
Shops & errands167 places mapped
08:15–20:46
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0%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
8%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
4
muggy days a year
9
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
65
umbrella days a year
20.9 m
of rain since 1981
4,187
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
462.5 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
3.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:53
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.6 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
14,238
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureOran RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.3% 197 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Greensboro 10.3%🇷🇺 Krasnodar 10.3%🇫🇷 Montauban 10.3%🇳🇱 Nijmegen 10.3%Oran🇺🇸 Racine 10.3%🇮🇹 Savona 10.3%🇧🇷 Sorocaba 10.3%🇸🇪 Uppsala 10.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 88 h 71 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Kaluga 88.5 h🇺🇸 Santa Clarita 88.2 h🇺🇸 Kansas City 88 h🇺🇸 Myrtle Beach 88 hOran🇲🇽 Tijuana 88 h🇷🇺 Vladivostok 88 h🇺🇸 Worcester 88 h🇺🇸 Allen 87.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 17.9% 293 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Pistoia 18%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 18%🇬🇧 Dunfermline 17.9%🇯🇵 Hanno 17.9%Oran🇸🇷 Paramaribo 17.9%🇨🇦 Winnipeg 17.9%🇨🇴 Bucaramanga 17.8%🇸🇰 Nitra 17.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Ocala 0%🇵🇱 Olsztyn 0%🇷🇺 Omsk 0%🇵🇱 Opole 0%Oran🇯🇵 Osaki 0%🇰🇬 Osh 0%🇨🇦 Oshawa 0%🇺🇸 Oshkosh 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 12.8% 104 of 1,878 🇦🇴 Luanda 13.1%🇹🇷 Denizli 13%🇪🇸 Lleida 13%🇳🇮 Managua 12.9%Oran🇻🇳 Vũng Tàu 12.8%🇯🇵 Fujieda 12.7%🇬🇪 Kutaisi 12.7%🇨🇦 Niagara Falls 12.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95.8% 41 of 1,704 🇨🇦 Toronto 95.9%🇺🇸 Annapolis 95.8%🇺🇸 Draper 95.8%🇹🇷 Gölcük 95.8%Oran🇺🇸 Reading 95.8%🇺🇸 Yakima 95.8%🇬🇧 Aberdeen 95.7%🇵🇹 Albufeira 95.7%

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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