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 121k · 1,134 venues mapped

Würzburg

Where Würzburg 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 190 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Schweinfurt 34 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇪 Munich 📖 219 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,134 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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5%
open past midnight
79%
open on Sundays
58h
open per week
18%
take a midday break
Shops & errands654 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
21%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
Services288 places mapped
08:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
10%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
9%
open 24/7
Culture276 places mapped
12:30–18:00
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2%
open past midnight
35%
open on Sundays
18h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
138
umbrella days a year
30.9 m
of rain since 1981
479
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
225.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:22
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.3 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,751
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureWürzburg RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5% 250 of 1,878 🇪🇨 Puyo 5%🇨🇺 Santiago de Cuba 5%🇦🇺 Sydney 5%🇵🇱 Wrocław 5%Würzburg🇩🇪 Aschaffenburg 4.9%🇫🇷 Bayonne 4.9%🇧🇷 Brasilia 4.9%🇬🇧 Cambridge 4.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57.8 h 190 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Tlalnepantla 58 h🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 57.8 h🇲🇽 Culiacán 57.8 h🇫🇷 Valenciennes 57.8 hWürzburg🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 57.5 h🇪🇸 Cartagena 57.5 h🇩🇪 Munich 57.5 h🇵🇹 Évora 57.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.6% 406 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Celle 6.6%🇷🇺 Cheboksary 6.6%🇵🇱 Kielce 6.6%🇩🇪 Krefeld 6.6%Würzburg🇹🇷 Antalya 6.5%🇵🇪 Arequipa 6.5%🇩🇪 Aschaffenburg 6.5%🇵🇰 Islamabad 6.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 17.8% 223 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Portimão 17.9%🇩🇪 Chemnitz 17.8%🇹🇼 Miaoli 17.8%🇩🇪 Passau 17.8%Würzburg🇬🇧 Lowestoft 17.7%🇯🇵 Miyazaki 17.6%🇮🇳 Mysuru 17.6%🇩🇪 Bremerhaven 17.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.4% 217 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Schwerin 1.4%🇯🇵 Shibata 1.4%🇵🇱 Warsaw 1.4%🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 1.4%Würzburg🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 1.3%🇫🇷 Arras 1.3%🇺🇸 Asheville 1.3%🇺🇸 Aurora 1.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 21.3% 506 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 21.7%🇩🇪 Kassel 21.6%🇩🇪 Hildesheim 21.4%🇦🇹 Vienna 21.3%Würzburg🇩🇪 Lüdenscheid 21.2%🇩🇪 Gießen 21.1%🇩🇪 Erlangen 20.9%🇩🇪 Göppingen 20.7%

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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