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The Anti-Awards

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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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🇹🇼 Taiwan · metro 2.3M · 299 venues mapped

Taichung

Where Taichung 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 48 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇹🇼 Miaoli 49 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇼 Taipei 📖 132 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jan, Oct, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink299 places mapped
11:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
19%
take a midday break
Shops & errands100 places mapped
06:00–24:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
126h
open per week
49%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
173
muggy days a year
46
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
156
umbrella days a year
76.7 m
of rain since 1981
3,982
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
144.4 km
to Tatun Volcanic Group
71.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:15
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.6 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
6,259
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTaichung RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 0% 296 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Sunderland 0%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 0%🇵🇭 Tacloban 0%🇵🇪 Tacna 0%Taichung🇮🇳 Talegaon Dabhade 0%🇧🇴 Tarija 0%🇵🇭 Tarlac City 0%🇵🇹 Tavira 0%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 50 h 224 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Oss 50 h🇩🇪 Pforzheim 50 h🇧🇷 Sorocaba 50 h🇫🇷 Sète 50 hTaichung🇧🇪 Verviers 50 h🇮🇹 Gallarate 49.9 h🇬🇧 Elland 49.8 h🇳🇱 Roosendaal 49.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.9% 284 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Toronto 19%🇲🇽 Monterrey 18.9%🇷🇸 Subotica 18.9%🇬🇧 Sunderland 18.9%Taichung🇹🇼 Taipei 18.9%🇨🇴 Bogota 18.8%🇬🇧 Cannock 18.8%🇭🇰 Hong Kong 18.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 18.9% 213 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Porto 19%🇯🇵 Tsuruoka 19%🇯🇵 Fukuyama 18.9%🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 18.9%Taichung🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 18.8%🇩🇪 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 18.8%🇯🇵 Matsumoto 18.8%🇩🇪 Mannheim 18.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇮🇪 Swords 0%🇭🇺 Szombathely 0%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 0%🇫🇷 Sète 0%Taichung🇯🇵 Takaoka 0%🇯🇵 Takayama 0%🇪🇸 Talavera de la Reina 0%🇪🇸 Tarifa 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95.1% 48 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Fort Wayne 95.1%🇺🇸 Lafayette 95.1%🇬🇧 London 95.1%🇨🇳 Nanjing 95.1%Taichung🇷🇴 Constanța 95%🇺🇸 Dayton 95%🇮🇹 Follonica 95%🇨🇦 Kelowna 95%

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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