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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🇪🇸 Spain · metro 84k · 759 venues mapped

Santiago de Compostela

Where Santiago de Compostela 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 41 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 A Coruña 56 km Nearest written profile 🇵🇹 Porto 📖 193 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 — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink759 places mapped
11:00–23:30
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13%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
61h
open per week
41%
take a midday break
Shops & errands227 places mapped
09:00–21:30
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0%
open past midnight
34%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
25%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Services114 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
20%
open on Sundays
65h
open per week
20%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
155
umbrella days a year
58.4 m
of rain since 1981
426
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
586 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:03
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.3 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
15,051
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSantiago de Compostela RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.9% 171 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Idaho Falls 12.9%🇨🇾 Larnaca 12.9%🇮🇪 Limerick 12.9%🇪🇸 Roquetas de Mar 12.9%Santiago de Compostela🇳🇴 Stavanger 12.9%🇫🇮 Turku 12.9%🇷🇺 Angarsk 12.8%🇫🇷 Besançon 12.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 61 h 177 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Linköping 61 h🇬🇧 Loughborough 61 h🇸🇪 Malmo 61 h🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 61 hSantiago de Compostela🇨🇭 Solothurn 61 h🇸🇪 Umeå 61 h🇪🇸 Valencia 61 h🇬🇧 York 61 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.6% 386 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Fortaleza 8.6%🇨🇳 Fuyang 8.6%🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 8.6%🇦🇹 Lustenau 8.6%Santiago de Compostela🇷🇺 Surgut 8.6%🇵🇱 Szczecin 8.6%🇵🇹 Vila Real 8.6%🇵🇱 Wrocław 8.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 41.4% 41 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Matera 41.9%🇫🇷 Amiens 41.7%🇫🇷 Auxerre 41.7%🇧🇪 Kortrijk 41.6%Santiago de Compostela🇮🇹 Pordenone 41.3%🇮🇹 Como 41.2%🇫🇷 Lorient 41.1%🇫🇷 Agde 40.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 0%🇧🇷 Santa Maria 0%🇪🇸 Santa Pola 0%🇪🇸 Santander 0%Santiago de Compostela🇲🇽 Santiago de Querétaro 0%🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs 0%🇨🇭 Schaffhausen 0%🇩🇪 Schweinfurt 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 34.2% 431 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Hagen 34.5%🇳🇴 Oslo 34.4%🇪🇸 Zamora 34.4%🇩🇪 Dormagen 34.2%Santiago de Compostela🇩🇪 Lübeck 33.7%🇬🇷 Chania 33.3%🇪🇸 Gandia 33.3%🇮🇹 Parma 33.3%

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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