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 206k · 1,063 venues mapped

Santander

Where Santander places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 121 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇪🇸 Bilbao 📖 75 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 & drink1,063 places mapped
10:00–23:30
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18%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
66h
open per week
26%
take a midday break
Shops & errands572 places mapped
09:00–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
36%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
52%
take a midday break
Services222 places mapped
09:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
12%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
31%
take a midday break
Culture159 places mapped
10:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
26%
open on Sundays
34h
open per week
30%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
157
umbrella days a year
42.7 m
of rain since 1981
114
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
511.2 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:42
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,675
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSantander RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 18% 121 of 1,878 🇨🇦 London 18.1%🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 18.1%🇺🇸 Des Moines 18%🇪🇸 Salamanca 18%Santander🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 18%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 18%🇯🇵 Hanno 17.9%🇺🇸 Oxford 17.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 66.5 h 155 of 1,878 🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 66.5 h🇯🇵 Nagasaki 66.5 h🇵🇱 Poznan 66.5 h🇺🇸 Santa Fe 66.5 hSantander🇮🇹 Tivoli 66.5 h🇪🇸 Vic 66.5 h🇮🇹 Vigevano 66.5 h🇬🇧 Exeter 66.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 17.5% 297 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Watampone 17.6%🇬🇧 Barnsley 17.5%🇬🇧 Falkirk 17.5%🇬🇧 Kidderminster 17.5%Santander🇬🇧 Stevenage 17.5%🇮🇹 Vicenza 17.5%🇮🇹 Alghero 17.4%🇪🇨 Guayaquil 17.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 26.2% 148 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Gerlingen 26.3%🇩🇪 Göppingen 26.3%🇧🇪 Liège 26.3%🇫🇷 Marseille 26.2%Santander🇨🇭 Winterthur 26.2%🇪🇸 Gandia 26.1%🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 26%🇩🇪 Freilassing 25.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 0%🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 0%🇧🇷 Santa Maria 0%🇪🇸 Santa Pola 0%Santander🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 0%🇲🇽 Santiago de Querétaro 0%🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs 0%🇨🇭 Schaffhausen 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 36% 423 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Granada 36.5%🇪🇸 Cartagena 36.4%🇨🇭 Bern 36.1%🇪🇸 Dénia 36.1%Santander🇸🇮 Maribor 35.9%🇪🇸 Salamanca 35.9%🇪🇸 Vigo 35.3%🇮🇳 Kannur 34.9%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities