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
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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 651k · 1,242 venues mapped

Wuppertal

Where Wuppertal 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 193 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Remscheid 9 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 118 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Wuppertal does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,242 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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6%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
15%
take a midday break
Shops & errands688 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
31%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
Services281 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
7%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
19%
take a midday break
Culture222 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
49%
open on Sundays
35h
open per week
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
162
umbrella days a year
40.4 m
of rain since 1981
148
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
122.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:26
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.6 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,974
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureWuppertal RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.3% 237 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Münster 6.3%🇺🇸 Pensacola 6.3%🇮🇩 Rangkasbitung 6.3%🇺🇸 Santa Barbara 6.3%Wuppertal🇨🇦 Abbotsford 6.2%🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 6.2%🇬🇧 Cannock 6.2%🇨🇦 Charlottetown 6.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57 h 193 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Pordenone 57 h🇳🇿 Rotorua 57 h🇯🇵 Tanabe 57 h🇨🇭 Winterthur 57 hWuppertal🇬🇧 Bournemouth 56.8 h🇮🇪 Kilkenny 56.8 h🇮🇹 Treviso 56.8 h🇩🇪 Erfurt 56.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.3% 419 of 1,878 🇨🇺 Nuevitas 5.3%🇵🇪 Pucallpa 5.3%🇱🇻 Riga 5.3%🇨🇱 Temuco 5.3%Wuppertal🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 5.3%🇩🇪 Bocholt 5.2%🇵🇱 Bydgoszcz 5.2%🇵🇱 Częstochowa 5.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 14.9% 245 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Innsbruck 15%🇮🇳 Kannur 15%🇯🇵 Tanabe 15%🇬🇧 Hinckley 14.9%Wuppertal🇬🇧 Carlisle 14.8%🇦🇹 Salzburg 14.8%🇪🇸 Torrevieja 14.7%🇵🇾 Asuncion 14.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1% 221 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 1%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 1%🇪🇸 Tarragona 1%🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 1%Wuppertal🇵🇹 Almada 0.9%🇯🇵 Beppu 0.9%🇺🇸 Cheyenne 0.9%🇹🇭 Chiang Rai 0.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 30.8% 445 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Tübingen 31%🇪🇸 A Coruña 30.9%🇪🇸 Almeria 30.8%🇪🇸 Talavera de la Reina 30.8%Wuppertal🇨🇭 Thun 30.7%🇨🇭 Winterthur 30.7%🇪🇸 Lleida 30.6%🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 30.4%

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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