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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🇨🇦 Canada · metro 286k · 719 venues mapped

Saskatoon

Where Saskatoon 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 77 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Regina 235 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Calgary 📖 526 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 & drink719 places mapped
11:00–23:00
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17%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands232 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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1%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Services154 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
43%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Culture104 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
65%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
101
umbrella days a year
19.1 m
of rain since 1981
640
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
917.4 km
to Wells Gray-Clearwater
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:57
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.8 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
15,932
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSaskatoon RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 17.4% 127 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Morgantown 17.5%🇺🇸 Palmdale 17.5%🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg 17.5%🇺🇸 Hazel Park 17.4%Saskatoon🇺🇸 Birmingham 17.3%🇮🇹 Busto Arsizio 17.3%🇺🇸 National City 17.3%🇺🇸 Stockton 17.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇸🇻 San Salvador 84 h🇨🇺 Santa Clara 84 h🇦🇷 Santa Fe 84 h🇺🇸 Santa Rosa 84 hSaskatoon🇧🇩 Savar 84 h🇮🇩 Semarang 84 h🇮🇩 Seririt 84 h🇷🇺 Serpukhov 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.2% 290 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Pekanbaru 18.2%🇮🇹 Pesaro 18.2%🇲🇾 Rawang 18.2%🇨🇴 Rionegro 18.2%Saskatoon🇨🇦 Calgary 18.1%🇹🇭 Phitsanulok 18.1%🇷🇴 Râmnicu Vâlcea 18.1%🇮🇹 La Spezia 18%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 0%🇵🇭 Santo Tomas 0%🇧🇦 Sarajevo 0%🇨🇦 Sarnia 0%Saskatoon🇬🇧 Scarborough 0%🇺🇸 Scranton 0%🇮🇩 Semarang 0%🇮🇩 Seririt 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 8.3% 148 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Kollam 8.3%🇭🇳 La Lima 8.3%🇨🇬 Pointe-Noire 8.3%🇷🇺 Pyatigorsk 8.3%Saskatoon🇮🇩 Surakarta 8.3%🇦🇷 Ushuaia 8.3%🇬🇧 Pontefract 8.2%🇧🇩 Savar 8.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 92.1% 77 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Catania 92.1%🇺🇸 Honolulu 92.1%🇱🇹 Kaunas 92.1%🇦🇴 Luanda 92.1%Saskatoon🇺🇦 Ternopil 92.1%🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 92.1%🇬🇧 Mansfield 92%🇺🇸 Visalia 92%

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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