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 124k · 1,135 venues mapped

Torremolinos

Where Torremolinos 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 111 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇪🇸 Málaga 📖 13 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 & drink1,135 places mapped
12:00–24:00
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14%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
16%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands338 places mapped
09:00–21:30
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5%
open past midnight
40%
open on Sundays
75h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Services186 places mapped
08:30–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
15%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
18
muggy days a year
3
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
60
umbrella days a year
21.5 m
of rain since 1981
221
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
253.7 km
to Calatrava Volcanic Field
2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:06
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.7 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,599
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTorremolinos RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.5% 155 of 1,878 🇮🇷 Mashhad 14.5%🇨🇦 Montreal 14.5%🇹🇭 Pattaya 14.5%🇰🇿 Shymkent 14.5%Torremolinos🇫🇷 Valenciennes 14.5%🇷🇺 Barnaul 14.4%🇯🇵 Hachioji 14.4%🇯🇵 Hino 14.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇭🇺 Szombathely 77 h🇵🇭 Tacloban 77 h🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 77 h🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 77 hTorremolinos🇸🇰 Trnava 77 h🇭🇰 Tsuen Wan 77 h🇭🇰 Tuen Mun 77 h🇨🇴 Tunja 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.2% 400 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Umeå 7.3%🇹🇷 Gölbaşı 7.2%🇺🇦 Kharkiv 7.2%🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 7.2%Torremolinos🇳🇱 Venlo 7.2%🇧🇷 Belém 7.1%🇺🇿 Bukhara 7.1%🇮🇪 Galway 7.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 15.7% 238 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Thun 15.8%🇯🇵 Tsukuba 15.8%🇩🇪 Bonn 15.7%🇩🇪 Krefeld 15.7%Torremolinos🇦🇺 Bendigo 15.6%🇰🇷 Gwangju 15.5%🇩🇪 Marl 15.5%🇪🇸 Bilbao 15.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.8% 183 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Kyiv 4.8%🇺🇸 Ocala 4.8%🇰🇿 Shymkent 4.8%🇷🇺 Stavropol 4.8%Torremolinos🇺🇸 Abilene 4.7%🇬🇧 Belfast 4.7%🇺🇸 Bloomington 4.7%🇬🇧 Bury St Edmunds 4.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 40.5% 406 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Mulhouse 41.2%🇸🇰 Prešov 41.2%🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 40.9%🇪🇸 Logroño 40.5%Torremolinos🇪🇸 Motril 40.4%🇪🇸 Zaragoza 40.4%🇨🇭 Lausanne 40.3%🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 40%

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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