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
Tools

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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.

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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.

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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
🇫🇷 France · metro 58k · 235 venues mapped

Ajaccio

Where Ajaccio 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 114 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Bastia 105 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Rome 📖 312 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink235 places mapped
09:00–21:45
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9%
open past midnight
59%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
23%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands100 places mapped
08:00–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
79h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
12%
open 24/7
Services60 places mapped
08:30–17:38
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0%
open past midnight
6%
open on Sundays
37h
open per week
39%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
2
muggy days a year
11
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
117
umbrella days a year
35.9 m
of rain since 1981
961
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
330.8 km
to Colli Albani
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:57
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.2 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
13,638
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAjaccio RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.1% 209 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Seattle 9.2%🇷🇺 Voronezh 9.2%🇭🇷 Zadar 9.2%🇵🇹 Évora 9.2%Ajaccio🇮🇳 Alappuzha 9.1%🇺🇸 Billings 9.1%🇬🇧 Blackburn 9.1%🇩🇪 Coburg 9.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 59.5 h 183 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Zaragoza 60 h🇩🇪 Kempten (Allgäu) 59.8 h🇵🇹 Lagos 59.8 h🇬🇧 Newbury 59.8 hAjaccio🇪🇸 Almeria 59.5 h🇳🇱 Amsterdam 59.5 h🇦🇺 Brisbane 59.5 h🇨🇴 Cali 59.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.6% 336 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 13.7%🇬🇧 Oxford 13.7%🇷🇴 Sibiu 13.7%🇯🇵 Tsukuba 13.7%Ajaccio🇨🇭 Biel/Bienne 13.6%🇬🇧 Blackburn 13.6%🇸🇰 Bratislava 13.6%🇷🇴 Constanța 13.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 22.7% 181 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Terrassa 23.1%🇨🇭 Bern 23%🇪🇸 Madrid 22.9%🇵🇹 Coimbra 22.8%Ajaccio🇧🇪 Leuven 22.7%🇪🇸 Dénia 22.6%🇩🇪 Ingolstadt 22.6%🇪🇸 Roquetas de Mar 22.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.5% 186 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Norman 4.6%🇬🇧 Redditch 4.6%🇺🇸 Riverside 4.6%🇦🇱 Shkoder 4.6%Ajaccio🇮🇳 Alappuzha 4.5%🇦🇺 Cairns 4.5%🇬🇧 Durham 4.5%🇧🇾 Hrodna 4.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 87.9% 114 of 1,704 🇮🇹 La Spezia 88.1%🇵🇹 Lisbon 88.1%🇦🇺 Melbourne 88.1%🇲🇽 Santiago de Querétaro 88%Ajaccio🇮🇹 Cagliari 87.9%🇦🇷 Cordoba 87.9%🇬🇧 Crewe 87.9%🇬🇧 Hereford 87.9%

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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