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.

All 24 rankings →
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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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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.

Read the method →
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.

Every city, A–Z →
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
← The Anti-Awards

The Early Bedtime Award

The cities that yawn first.

Full standings

median weekday closing time, food & drink · 113 cities
  1. 1 🇳🇿 Auckland closes 21:00
  2. 🇦🇺 Brisbane closes 21:00
  3. 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai closes 21:00
  4. 🇨🇳 Hefei closes 21:00
  5. 🇦🇺 Melbourne closes 21:00
  6. 🇦🇺 Perth closes 21:00
  7. 🇲🇺 Port Louis closes 21:00
  8. 🇺🇸 San Francisco closes 21:00
  9. 🇨🇷 San José closes 21:00
  10. 🇺🇸 Seattle closes 21:00
  11. 🇸🇪 Stockholm closes 21:00
  12. 🇦🇺 Sydney closes 21:00
  13. 🇹🇼 Taipei closes 21:00
  14. 🇫🇮 Turku closes 21:00
  15. 2 🇸🇰 Bratislava closes 21:30
  16. 🇵🇱 Wrocław closes 21:30
  17. 3 🇳🇱 Amsterdam closes 22:00
  18. 🇺🇸 Austin closes 22:00
  19. 🇹🇭 Bangkok closes 22:00
  20. 🇩🇪 Berlin closes 22:00
  21. 🇧🇪 Brussels closes 22:00
  22. 🇷🇴 Bucharest closes 22:00
  23. 🇭🇺 Budapest closes 22:00
  24. 🇰🇷 Busan closes 22:00
  25. 🇨🇦 Calgary closes 22:00
  26. 🇿🇦 Cape Town closes 22:00
  27. 🇨🇳 Chengdu closes 22:00
  28. 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca closes 22:00
  29. 🇩🇰 Copenhagen closes 22:00
  30. 🇮🇪 Dublin closes 22:00
  31. 🇳🇱 Eindhoven closes 22:00
  32. 🇩🇪 Frankfurt closes 22:00
  33. 🇨🇭 Geneva closes 22:00
  34. 🇲🇾 George Town closes 22:00
  35. 🇲🇽 Guadalajara closes 22:00
  36. 🇨🇳 Hangzhou closes 22:00
  37. 🇻🇳 Hanoi closes 22:00
  38. 🇫🇮 Helsinki closes 22:00
  39. 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City closes 22:00
  40. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong closes 22:00
  41. 🇷🇼 Kigali closes 22:00
  42. 🇵🇱 Kraków closes 22:00
  43. 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur closes 22:00
  44. 🇸🇮 Ljubljana closes 22:00
  45. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles closes 22:00
  46. 🇨🇴 Medellín closes 22:00
  47. 🇲🇽 Mérida closes 22:00
  48. 🇲🇽 Mexico City closes 22:00
  49. 🇨🇦 Montreal closes 22:00
  50. 🇩🇪 Munich closes 22:00
  51. 🇺🇸 New York closes 22:00
  52. 🇳🇴 Oslo closes 22:00
  53. 🇫🇮 Oulu closes 22:00
  54. 🇵🇦 Panama City closes 22:00
  55. 🇨🇿 Prague closes 22:00
  56. 🇱🇻 Riga closes 22:00
  57. 🇨🇱 Santiago closes 22:00
  58. 🇰🇷 Seoul closes 22:00
  59. 🇨🇳 Shanghai closes 22:00
  60. 🇸🇬 Singapore closes 22:00
  61. 🇧🇬 Sofia closes 22:00
  62. 🇪🇪 Tallinn closes 22:00
  63. 🇨🇦 Vancouver closes 22:00
  64. 🇦🇹 Vienna closes 22:00
  65. 🇱🇹 Vilnius closes 22:00
  66. 🇵🇱 Warsaw closes 22:00
  67. 🇨🇭 Zurich closes 22:00
  68. 4 🇱🇺 Luxembourg closes 22:08
  69. 5 🇵🇹 Lisbon closes 22:30
  70. 🇯🇵 Osaka closes 22:30
  71. 🇫🇷 Paris closes 22:30
  72. 🇯🇵 Tokyo closes 22:30
  73. 🇨🇦 Toronto closes 22:30
  74. 🇲🇹 Valletta closes 22:30
  75. 6 🇨🇾 Limassol closes 22:52
  76. 7 🇷🇸 Belgrade closes 23:00
  77. 🇪🇸 Bilbao closes 23:00
  78. 🇧🇷 Florianópolis closes 23:00
  79. 🇯🇵 Fukuoka closes 23:00
  80. 🇵🇹 Funchal closes 23:00
  81. 🇹🇷 Istanbul closes 23:00
  82. 🇬🇧 London closes 23:00
  83. 🇺🇸 Miami closes 23:00
  84. 🇮🇹 Milan closes 23:00
  85. 🇰🇪 Nairobi closes 23:00
  86. 🇵🇹 Porto closes 23:00
  87. 🇮🇹 Rome closes 23:00
  88. 🇧🇷 São Paulo closes 23:00
  89. 🇬🇪 Tbilisi closes 23:00
  90. 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv closes 23:00
  91. 🇦🇱 Tirana closes 23:00
  92. 🇮🇹 Turin closes 23:00
  93. 🇭🇷 Zagreb closes 23:00
  94. 8 🇪🇸 Barcelona closes 23:30
  95. 🇴🇲 Muscat closes 23:30
  96. 🇪🇸 Valencia closes 23:30
  97. 9 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi closes 0:00
  98. 🇰🇿 Almaty closes 0:00
  99. 🇹🇷 Antalya closes 0:00
  100. 🇰🇿 Astana closes 0:00
  101. 🇬🇷 Athens closes 0:00
  102. 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires closes 0:00
  103. 🇶🇦 Doha closes 0:00
  104. 🇦🇪 Dubai closes 0:00
  105. 🇪🇸 Madrid closes 0:00
  106. 🇪🇸 Málaga closes 0:00
  107. 🇧🇭 Manama closes 0:00
  108. 🇺🇾 Montevideo closes 0:00
  109. 🇲🇪 Podgorica closes 0:00
  110. 🇦🇪 Ras Al Khaimah closes 0:00
  111. 🇭🇷 Split closes 0:00
  112. 🇬🇷 Thessaloniki closes 0:00
  113. 🇦🇲 Yerevan closes 0:00

A ranking of evidence, not of worth — the winner is invited to wear it proudly. Compare any two contenders head-to-head.