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 261k · 288 venues mapped

Terrassa

Where Terrassa 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 148 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 14 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Barcelona 📖 23 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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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 & drink288 places mapped
08:15–23:00
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8%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
23%
take a midday break
Shops & errands184 places mapped
09:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
44%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
9%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
2
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
92
umbrella days a year
23.7 m
of rain since 1981
1,822
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
79.4 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:25
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.2 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,169
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTerrassa RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.7% 223 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Hereford 7.7%🇺🇸 Layton 7.7%🇨🇭 Neuchâtel 7.7%🇨🇭 Olten 7.7%Terrassa🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 7.7%🇺🇸 Waukegan 7.7%🇨🇭 Wettingen 7.7%🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 7.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 68 h 148 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Manchester 68 h🇬🇧 Mansfield 68 h🇸🇪 Norrköping 68 h🇨🇱 Temuco 68 hTerrassa🇲🇽 Valladolid 68 h🇬🇧 Banbury 67.5 h🇪🇸 Cáceres 67.5 h🇯🇵 Osaka 67.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 19.2% 281 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Verona 19.3%🇨🇦 Abbotsford 19.2%🇬🇧 Gloucester 19.2%🇬🇧 Livingston 19.2%Terrassa🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 19.2%🇺🇸 Key West 19.1%🇱🇾 Tripoli 19.1%🇹🇭 Bangkok 19%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 23.1% 177 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Heilbronn 23.1%🇨🇭 Kreuzlingen 23.1%🇨🇭 Olten 23.1%🇪🇸 Talavera de la Reina 23.1%Terrassa🇨🇭 Bern 23%🇪🇸 Madrid 22.9%🇵🇹 Coimbra 22.8%🇫🇷 Ajaccio 22.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇧🇴 Tarija 0%🇵🇹 Tavira 0%🇧🇪 Temse 0%🇲🇽 Tepic 0%Terrassa🇺🇸 The Woodlands 0%🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 0%🇳🇱 Tilburg 0%🇮🇹 Tivoli 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 43.5% 398 of 1,704 🇸🇰 Prievidza 44.4%🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 44.2%🇮🇹 Asti 43.8%🇨🇭 Montreux 43.5%Terrassa🇫🇷 Metz 42.6%🇧🇷 Santa Maria 42.6%🇿🇼 Harare 42.5%🇪🇸 Fuengirola 42.2%

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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