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 89k · 1,262 venues mapped

Pontefract

Where Pontefract 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 69 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Wakefield 12 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 256 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 & drink1,262 places mapped
11:00–23:00
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11%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands474 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Services172 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
24%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
157
umbrella days a year
32.8 m
of rain since 1981
6
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
682.4 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:47
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.1 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,565
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePontefract RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11% 190 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Easton 11%🇺🇸 Fair Oaks 11%🇪🇸 Fuengirola 11%🇫🇷 Montpellier 11%Pontefract🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 11%🇺🇸 West Haven 11%🇷🇴 Craiova 10.9%🇺🇸 Glen Burnie 10.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 75 h 120 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Corvallis 75 h🇬🇧 Doncaster 75 h🇹🇿 Mwanza 75 h🇪🇸 Pamplona 75 hPontefract🇵🇹 Porto 75 h🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 75 h🇨🇱 Santiago 75 h🇨🇦 Sherwood Park 75 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 12.3% 349 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Nimes 12.4%🇵🇹 Coimbra 12.3%🇷🇴 Iași 12.3%🇪🇸 Madrid 12.3%Pontefract🇵🇹 Porto 12.3%🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 12.3%🇵🇱 Rybnik 12.3%🇷🇴 Timișoara 12.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.1% 343 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Linköping 4.1%🇺🇸 Lynchburg 4.1%🇲🇲 Mawlamyine 4.1%🇧🇷 Ponta Porã 4.1%Pontefract🇪🇨 Riobamba 4.1%🇰🇭 Siem Reap 4.1%🇬🇧 Weston-super-Mare 4.1%🇹🇷 Bandırma 4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 8.2% 149 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Pyatigorsk 8.3%🇨🇦 Saskatoon 8.3%🇮🇩 Surakarta 8.3%🇦🇷 Ushuaia 8.3%Pontefract🇧🇩 Savar 8.2%🇺🇸 Terre Haute 8.2%🇨🇦 Windsor 8.2%🇦🇺 Langwarrin 8.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93% 69 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Harrogate 93.1%🇲🇽 Puebla 93.1%🇷🇺 Astrakhan 93%🇳🇿 Auckland 93%Pontefract🇬🇧 Southampton 93%🇱🇹 Šiauliai 93%🇮🇳 Attingal 92.9%🇮🇳 Bengaluru 92.9%

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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