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

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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · metro 509k · 1,644 venues mapped

Abu Dhabi

Where Abu Dhabi 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 18 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Abu Dhabi in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city · in the atlas 🇦🇪 Dubai 📖 115 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,644 places mapped
08:00–24:00
0006121824
29%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Shops & errands802 places mapped
07:00–24:00
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
112h
open per week
20%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
178
muggy days a year
208
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
13
umbrella days a year
4 m
of rain since 1981
9,689
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1057.3 km
to Bir Borhut
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:39
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.7 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
9,049
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAbu Dhabi RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 28.8% 47 of 1,878 🇳🇬 Lagos 29.8%🇮🇶 Al Hillah 29.6%🇨🇬 Pointe-Noire 29.2%🇲🇦 Tangier 29.2%Abu Dhabi🇪🇸 Huelva 28.6%🇹🇷 Izmir 28.6%🇪🇬 Cairo 28.5%🇪🇸 Málaga 28.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 105 h 18 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Abilene 107 h🇺🇸 Atlantic City 107 h🇺🇸 Oxford 107 h🇻🇳 Thái Nguyên 106.8 hAbu Dhabi🇹🇷 Alanya 105 h🇲🇪 Budva 105 h🇺🇸 Chicago Heights 105 h🇻🇳 Cần Thơ 105 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 28.8% 193 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Portland 29.1%🇲🇦 Rabat 29.1%🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 28.9%🇮🇹 Vercelli 28.9%Abu Dhabi🇺🇸 Milwaukee 28.8%🇺🇸 Provo 28.8%🇪🇸 Huelva 28.6%🇷🇼 Kigali 28.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.2% 362 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Purmerend 2.3%🇨🇴 Riohacha 2.3%🇵🇭 Tagaytay 2.3%🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 2.3%Abu Dhabi🇺🇸 Hilo 2.2%🇱🇹 Kaunas 2.2%🇺🇸 Milwaukee 2.2%🇷🇺 Moscow 2.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.5% 166 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Yaroslavl 6.7%🇺🇦 Odesa 6.6%🇷🇺 Tambov 6.6%🇮🇷 Tehran 6.6%Abu Dhabi🇧🇾 Brest 6.5%🇰🇷 Changwon 6.5%🇷🇴 Craiova 6.5%🇧🇷 Criciúma 6.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.8% 21 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Numazu 97.9%🇬🇧 Telford 97.9%🇯🇵 Tsuruoka 97.9%🇺🇸 Worcester 97.9%Abu Dhabi🇺🇸 Arlington 97.8%🇺🇸 Austin 97.8%🇷🇺 Azov 97.8%🇷🇺 Barnaul 97.8%

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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