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
Tools

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Compare two cities Head-to-head on absurd terms only. No GDP, no cappuccino index. The year, month by month Where to be in each month, who has the most days off, and when the airports peak. Start from a goal Eat well at 2 a.m. · Work all day from a café — ranked by what the city keeps open.
How this is made

Every figure on this site states where it came from and what it cannot tell you.

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Method & principles What we measure, what we refuse to guess, and why rhythm is never a claim about people. Sources Every corpus behind the atlas, with its licence. Books coming soon The long-form city profiles and the method book. Contact · request a city Tell us what the atlas is missing.
The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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Southern Europe21
RomeMilanBarcelonaMadridAthensLisbon
Western Europe20
LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇪🇸 Spain · metro 153k · 1,015 venues mapped

Tarragona

Where Tarragona 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 113 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Reus 12 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Barcelona 📖 82 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit 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 & drink1,015 places mapped
09:15–23:00
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10%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
62h
open per week
31%
take a midday break
Shops & errands403 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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1%
open past midnight
49%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
30%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Services173 places mapped
08:30–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
8%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
25%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
40
muggy days a year
11
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
82
umbrella days a year
20.8 m
of rain since 1981
261
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
158.3 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:30
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.1 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,222
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTarragona RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.9% 201 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Palm Desert 9.9%🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo 9.9%🇬🇧 St Albans 9.9%🇬🇧 Stevenage 9.9%Tarragona🇷🇺 Yoshkar-Ola 9.9%🇳🇱 Amersfoort 9.8%🇵🇹 Barreiro 9.8%🇷🇴 Bucharest 9.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 62 h 172 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Koriyama 62 h🇨🇭 Lausanne 62 h🇮🇹 Ravenna 62 h🇬🇧 Swindon 62 hTarragona🇮🇹 Varese 62 h🇵🇱 Zielona Góra 62 h🇮🇹 Ancona 61.8 h🇧🇿 Belize City 61.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.8% 285 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Izhevsk 18.8%🇯🇵 Kochi 18.8%🇲🇽 Mérida 18.8%🇲🇦 Tangier 18.8%Tarragona🇮🇳 Udaipur 18.8%🇮🇶 Kirkuk 18.6%🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 18.6%🇮🇶 Al Hillah 18.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 30.7% 113 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Bari 31%🇯🇵 Takaoka 31%🇧🇪 Charleroi 30.9%🇫🇷 Avignon 30.7%Tarragona🇨🇭 Basel 30.5%🇫🇷 Arras 30.4%🇮🇹 Imperia 30.3%🇮🇹 Latina 30.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1% 221 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Pau 1%🇩🇪 Pforzheim 1%🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 1%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 1%Tarragona🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 1%🇩🇪 Wuppertal 1%🇵🇹 Almada 0.9%🇯🇵 Beppu 0.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 49.3% 373 of 1,704 🇧🇪 Temse 50.6%🇪🇸 Granollers 50%🇲🇰 Skopje 49.6%🇫🇷 Angers 49.5%Tarragona🇮🇳 Ponnani 49.1%🇪🇸 Ibiza 48.9%🇵🇱 Olsztyn 48.9%🇺🇬 Kampala 48.7%

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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