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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The index

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

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CEE & Balkans16
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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 152k · 894 venues mapped

York

Where York places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 116 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Harrogate 30 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 280 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jul — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink894 places mapped
11:00–21:30
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2%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
61h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands232 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
102h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Culture175 places mapped
09:45–18:30
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8%
open past midnight
54%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
Services88 places mapped
09:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
27%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
158
umbrella days a year
33.6 m
of rain since 1981
3
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
685.9 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:44
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.1 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,550
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureYork RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.4% 276 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Luhansk 2.4%🇻🇳 Ninh Bình 2.4%🇲🇽 Nuevo Laredo 2.4%🇲🇺 Port Louis 2.4%York🇯🇵 Akita 2.3%🇵🇪 Cusco 2.3%🇩🇪 Dormagen 2.3%🇻🇳 Hội An 2.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 61 h 177 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 61 h🇨🇭 Solothurn 61 h🇸🇪 Umeå 61 h🇪🇸 Valencia 61 hYork🇬🇧 Ipswich 60.8 h🇬🇧 Luton 60.8 h🇳🇱 Zwolle 60.8 h🇩🇪 Lübeck 60.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.1% 361 of 1,878 🇵🇪 Piura 11.1%🇮🇩 Seririt 11.1%🇸🇬 Singapore 11.1%🇨🇴 Sogamoso 11.1%York🇱🇰 Galle 11%🇺🇦 Chernihiv 10.9%🇫🇮 Tampere 10.9%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 10.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 5.8% 326 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Santa Barbara 5.9%🇬🇧 Bristol 5.8%🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 5.8%🇦🇺 Melbourne 5.8%York🇬🇧 Bangor 5.7%🇬🇧 Bath 5.7%🇨🇳 Fuyang 5.7%🇧🇷 Joinville 5.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.9% 202 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Point Cook 2.9%🇮🇳 Pune 2.9%🇪🇸 Segovia 2.9%🇺🇸 Syracuse 2.9%York🇫🇷 Auxerre 2.8%🇺🇸 Chapel Hill 2.8%🇮🇹 Civitanova Marche 2.8%🇺🇸 Denver 2.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 87.7% 116 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Elland 87.8%🇬🇧 Kidderminster 87.8%🇺🇸 Salem 87.8%🇬🇧 Dundee 87.7%York🇸🇪 Stockholm 87.6%🇬🇧 Bury St Edmunds 87.5%🇧🇷 Chapecó 87.5%🇺🇸 Chattanooga 87.5%

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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