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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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 151k · 1,435 venues mapped

Swansea

Where Swansea 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 144 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Bridgend 28 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇪 Dublin 📖 246 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Swansea 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 & drink1,435 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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5%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
69h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands497 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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2%
open past midnight
80%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
Culture272 places mapped
10:00–17:00
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0%
open past midnight
47%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Services208 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
25%
open on Sundays
47h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
191
umbrella days a year
49.1 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
773.2 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:08
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.7 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,743
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSwansea RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.3% 247 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Manizales 5.3%🇬🇧 Northampton 5.3%🇵🇱 Opole 5.3%🇯🇵 Otaru 5.3%Swansea🇭🇺 Szombathely 5.3%🇹🇼 Taitung 5.3%🇷🇴 Târgoviște 5.3%🇨🇲 Yaoundé 5.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 69 h 144 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 69 h🇺🇸 Santa Barbara 69 h🇪🇸 Santa Pola 69 h🇬🇧 Stafford 69 hSwansea🇭🇺 Veszprém 69 h🇦🇹 Vienna 69 h🇸🇪 Västerås 69 h🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 69 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.4% 338 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Bath 13.4%🇮🇩 Jakarta 13.4%🇫🇷 Le Havre 13.4%🇬🇧 Nottingham 13.4%Swansea🇯🇵 Asahikawa 13.3%🇬🇧 Bedford 13.3%🇪🇸 Cartagena 13.3%🇦🇷 Cipolletti 13.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.8% 336 of 1,878 🇮🇷 Qazvin 4.8%🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 4.8%🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 4.8%🇨🇳 Suzhou 4.8%Swansea🇬🇧 Gloucester 4.7%🇨🇾 Larnaca 4.7%🇺🇸 Simi Valley 4.7%🇬🇧 Telford 4.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.3% 178 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Kozhikode 5.3%🇯🇵 Misawa 5.3%🇷🇺 Ryazan 5.3%🇬🇧 Sheffield 5.3%Swansea🇨🇱 Temuco 5.3%🇵🇱 Bydgoszcz 5.2%🇬🇧 Crewe 5.2%🇺🇸 Flint 5.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 80.5% 177 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Anchorage 80.6%🇧🇷 Macapá 80.6%🇬🇹 Guatemala City 80.5%🇲🇨 Monaco 80.5%Swansea🇵🇱 Gniezno 80.4%🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 80.4%🇮🇹 Pisa 80.4%🇭🇷 Zadar 80.2%

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