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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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 168k · 1,959 venues mapped

Oxford

Where Oxford 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 50 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Aylesbury 31 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 83 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 & drink1,959 places mapped
10:00–22:00
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2%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
64h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
Culture706 places mapped
09:30–17:15
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0%
open past midnight
46%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
Shops & errands600 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
7%
open 24/7
Services241 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
21%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
144
umbrella days a year
33.1 m
of rain since 1981
44
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
594 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:57
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.7 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,558
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureOxford RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.6% 284 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Ubud 1.7%🇲🇽 Ensenada 1.6%🇯🇵 Fuji 1.6%🇮🇳 Kottayam 1.6%Oxford🇬🇧 Bedford 1.5%🇧🇷 Blumenau 1.5%🇦🇺 Cairns 1.5%🇩🇪 Chemnitz 1.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63.5 h 165 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Nagano 64 h🇳🇴 Trondheim 64 h🇫🇮 Turku 64 h🇧🇷 Jundiaí 63.5 hOxford🇬🇧 Plymouth 63.5 h🇯🇵 Sakata 63.5 h🇫🇮 Tampere 63.5 h🇯🇵 Isesaki 63.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.7% 335 of 1,878 🇲🇿 Maputo 13.8%🇨🇦 White Rock 13.8%🇬🇧 Chelmsford 13.7%🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 13.7%Oxford🇷🇴 Sibiu 13.7%🇯🇵 Tsukuba 13.7%🇫🇷 Ajaccio 13.6%🇨🇭 Biel/Bienne 13.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 9.6% 289 of 1,878 🇰🇷 Seogwipo 10%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 10%🇳🇿 Auckland 9.8%🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 9.8%Oxford🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 9.6%🇬🇧 Ashford 9.5%🇯🇵 Sapporo 9.5%🇭🇰 Tsuen Wan 9.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.9% 222 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Lisbon 0.9%🇩🇪 Münster 0.9%🇩🇪 Neuwied 0.9%🇳🇴 Oslo 0.9%Oxford🇩🇪 Paderborn 0.9%🇺🇸 Peabody 0.9%🇫🇷 Reims 0.9%🇮🇸 Reykjavik 0.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94.9% 50 of 1,704 🇨🇦 Edmonton 94.9%🇬🇧 Glasgow 94.9%🇺🇦 Ivano-Frankivsk 94.9%🇺🇸 Louisville 94.9%Oxford🇰🇿 Almaty 94.8%🇺🇸 Bethlehem 94.8%🇮🇷 Isfahan 94.8%🇬🇧 Slough 94.8%

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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