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 312k · 1,162 venues mapped

Oshawa

Where Oshawa 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 86 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Pickering 23 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 49 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, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,162 places mapped
10:00–22:00
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5%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Shops & errands339 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
22%
open 24/7
Services263 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
38%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
10%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
4
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
159
umbrella days a year
30.3 m
of rain since 1981
447
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2372 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.5 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,169
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureOshawa RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.7% 253 of 1,878 🇮🇪 Cork 4.7%🇬🇧 Gillingham 4.7%🇨🇦 Kelowna 4.7%🇮🇶 Kirkuk 4.7%Oshawa🇬🇧 Southport 4.7%🇺🇸 Trenton 4.7%🇸🇪 Karlstad 4.6%🇮🇳 Pune 4.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Naples 77 h🇯🇵 Narita 77 h🇵🇭 Nasugbu 77 h🇺🇸 National City 77 hOshawa🇨🇿 Ostrava 77 h🇨🇿 Pardubice 77 h🇹🇭 Pattaya 77 h🇺🇸 Poway 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 25.8% 220 of 1,878 🇺🇸 New York City 25.9%🇮🇹 Cremona 25.8%🇨🇳 Guangzhou 25.8%🇺🇸 Hilo 25.8%Oshawa🇬🇧 Belfast 25.7%🇮🇹 Arezzo 25.6%🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 25.6%🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 25.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Opole 0%🇩🇿 Oran 0%🇯🇵 Osaki 0%🇰🇬 Osh 0%Oshawa🇺🇸 Oshkosh 0%🇭🇷 Osijek 0%🇪🇨 Otavalo 0%🇧🇫 Ouagadougou 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 12.5% 106 of 1,878 🇲🇾 George Town 12.5%🇯🇵 Iizuka 12.5%🇯🇵 Kochi 12.5%🇹🇷 Nevşehir 12.5%Oshawa🇯🇵 Saga 12.5%🇰🇿 Astana 12.4%🇨🇦 Pickering 12.4%🇧🇷 Arujá 12.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 91.1% 86 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Flagstaff 91.3%🇺🇸 Pensacola 91.3%🇬🇧 Bognor Regis 91.2%🇱🇻 Riga 91.2%Oshawa🇬🇧 Portsmouth 91.1%🇦🇺 Sydney 91.1%🇬🇧 Wigan 91.1%🇵🇹 Barreiro 91%

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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