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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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇪🇸 Spain · metro 143k · 944 venues mapped

Salamanca

Where Salamanca 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 30 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇪🇸 Madrid 📖 2 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, 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 & drink944 places mapped
12:00–24:00
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18%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
62h
open per week
44%
take a midday break
Shops & errands502 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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3%
open past midnight
36%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
27%
take a midday break
Services219 places mapped
09:00–19:45
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0%
open past midnight
4%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
43%
take a midday break
Culture123 places mapped
10:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
50%
open on Sundays
38h
open per week
50%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
82
umbrella days a year
20.6 m
of rain since 1981
3,291
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
175.9 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:52
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.1 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,614
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSalamanca RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 18% 121 of 1,878 🇫🇮 Jyväskylä 18.1%🇨🇦 London 18.1%🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 18.1%🇺🇸 Des Moines 18%Salamanca🇪🇸 Santander 18%🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 18%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 18%🇯🇵 Hanno 17.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 61.5 h 174 of 1,878 🇧🇿 Belize City 61.5 h🇧🇷 Campo Grande 61.5 h🇬🇧 Cheltenham 61.5 h🇪🇸 Granada 61.5 hSalamanca🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 61.5 h🇮🇹 Trento 61.5 h🇮🇹 Florence 61.3 h🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 61.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 1.1% 461 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Świnoujście 1.3%🇷🇺 Kaluga 1.2%🇷🇺 Makhachkala 1.2%🇧🇷 Nova Lima 1.1%Salamanca🇳🇱 Enschede 0.9%🇯🇵 Komatsu 0.9%🇷🇺 Pskov 0.9%🇳🇱 Roosendaal 0.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 43.8% 30 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Almuñécar 44.4%🇫🇷 Agen 44.3%🇩🇪 Straubing 44.1%🇫🇷 Besançon 44%Salamanca🇮🇹 Alghero 43.5%🇬🇫 Cayenne 43.5%🇫🇷 Metz 43.3%🇫🇷 Arles 43%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 0%🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 0%🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 0%🇯🇵 Sakata 0%Salamanca🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 0%🇺🇸 San Clemente 0%🇻🇪 San Cristobal 0%🇧🇿 San Pedro 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 35.9% 424 of 1,704 🇨🇭 Bern 36.1%🇪🇸 Dénia 36.1%🇪🇸 Santander 36%🇸🇮 Maribor 35.9%Salamanca🇪🇸 Vigo 35.3%🇮🇳 Kannur 34.9%🇪🇸 León 34.9%🇪🇸 Málaga 34.7%

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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