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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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🇪🇸 Spain · metro 14k · 240 venues mapped

Tarifa

Where Tarifa 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 77 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇬🇮 Gibraltar 27 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Málaga 📖 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 Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink240 places mapped
12:00–23:45
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24%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
66h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
Shops & errands69 places mapped
09:00–21:30
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0%
open past midnight
27%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
13%
take a midday break
13%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
17
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
71
umbrella days a year
26.4 m
of rain since 1981
263
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
347.1 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:12
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.6 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,680
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTarifa RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 23.5% 77 of 1,878 🇪🇸 A Coruña 23.7%🇶🇦 Doha 23.6%🇹🇷 Istanbul 23.6%🇮🇹 Barletta 23.5%Tarifa🇨🇱 La Serena 23.3%🇹🇷 Antalya 23.2%🇮🇹 Bari 23.2%🇯🇵 Beppu 23.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 66 h 157 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Sheffield 66 h🇬🇧 Southampton 66 h🇸🇪 Stockholm 66 h🇹🇼 Tainan 66 hTarifa🇬🇧 Taunton 66 h🇮🇹 Vercelli 66 h🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 65.5 h🇵🇪 Piura 65.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.9% 413 of 1,878 🇲🇽 La Paz 5.9%🇩🇪 Landshut 5.9%🇩🇪 Münster 5.9%🇩🇪 Rosenheim 5.9%Tarifa🇧🇹 Thimphu 5.9%🇪🇸 Torrevieja 5.9%🇫🇷 Arles 5.8%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 5.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 11.8% 272 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Doncaster 11.8%🇧🇷 Manaus 11.8%🇲🇺 Port Louis 11.8%🇧🇿 San Pedro 11.8%Tarifa🇯🇵 Kawagoe 11.7%🇬🇧 Northampton 11.7%🇩🇪 Dresden 11.6%🇩🇪 Reinbek 11.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇹🇼 Taichung 0%🇯🇵 Takaoka 0%🇯🇵 Takayama 0%🇪🇸 Talavera de la Reina 0%Tarifa🇧🇴 Tarija 0%🇵🇹 Tavira 0%🇧🇪 Temse 0%🇲🇽 Tepic 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 26.7% 469 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 27.1%🇩🇪 Freilassing 27%🇩🇪 Berlin 26.9%🇩🇪 Minden 26.9%Tarifa🇬🇷 Athens 26.6%🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 26.6%🇩🇪 Ravensburg 26.6%🇩🇪 Bielefeld 26.2%

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.

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