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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🇦🇹 Austria · metro 60k · 229 venues mapped

Sankt Pölten

Where Sankt Pölten places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 167 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇦🇹 Vienna 📖 55 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Sankt Pölten does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink229 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
11%
open past midnight
61%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
Shops & errands144 places mapped
07:15–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
16%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
157
umbrella days a year
41.6 m
of rain since 1981
107
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
674.4 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
1.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:06
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.1 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,306
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSankt Pölten RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11% 190 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Fair Oaks 11%🇪🇸 Fuengirola 11%🇫🇷 Montpellier 11%🇬🇧 Pontefract 11%Sankt Pölten🇺🇸 West Haven 11%🇷🇴 Craiova 10.9%🇺🇸 Glen Burnie 10.9%🇳🇱 Helmond 10.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Potsdam 63 h🇧🇷 Recife 63 h🇨🇴 Riohacha 63 h🇪🇸 San Fernando 63 hSankt Pölten🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 63 h🇬🇧 Sunderland 63 h🇹🇼 Taipei 63 h🇯🇵 Takaoka 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18% 292 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Râmnicu Vâlcea 18.1%🇮🇹 La Spezia 18%🇦🇴 Luanda 18%🇮🇹 Pistoia 18%Sankt Pölten🇬🇧 Dunfermline 17.9%🇯🇵 Hanno 17.9%🇩🇿 Oran 17.9%🇸🇷 Paramaribo 17.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 12% 270 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Münster 12.1%🇸🇬 Singapore 12.1%🇯🇵 Muroran 12%🇨🇦 Peterborough 12%Sankt Pölten🇬🇧 Colchester 11.9%🇩🇪 Görlitz 11.9%🇴🇲 Muscat 11.9%🇮🇹 Taranto 11.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1% 221 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Pabianice 1%🇫🇷 Pau 1%🇩🇪 Pforzheim 1%🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 1%Sankt Pölten🇪🇸 Tarragona 1%🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 1%🇩🇪 Wuppertal 1%🇵🇹 Almada 0.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 16.1% 528 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Saarlouis 16.9%🇩🇪 Kempten (Allgäu) 16.8%🇦🇹 Wels 16.8%🇩🇪 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 16.3%Sankt Pölten🇩🇪 Regensburg 16%🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 15.9%🇩🇪 Leipzig 15.5%🇪🇸 Huelva 15.4%

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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