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.

Open the comparer →
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
🇩🇿 Algeria · metro 3.3M · 1,197 venues mapped

Algiers

Where Algiers 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 43 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇩🇿 Sidi Moussa 14 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Valencia 📖 430 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,197 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
11%
take a midday break
14%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,058 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
4%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
20%
open 24/7
Services702 places mapped
08:30–16:30
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
10
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
78
umbrella days a year
26.3 m
of rain since 1981
4,307
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
606.5 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
12.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:35
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.7 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
13,947
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAlgiers RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.2% 268 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Mount Vernon 3.3%🇺🇸 New Braunfels 3.3%🇷🇺 Smolensk 3.3%🇸🇰 Žilina 3.3%Algiers🇲🇽 Guadalajara 3.2%🇩🇪 Leipzig 3.2%🇩🇪 Magdeburg 3.2%🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 3.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 84.5 h🇷🇺 Abakan 84 h🇵🇭 Agoo 84 h🇸🇾 Aleppo 84 hAlgiers🇷🇺 Angarsk 84 h🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 84 h🇺🇸 Appleton 84 h🇷🇴 Arad 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 19.4% 279 of 1,878 🇻🇳 Phan Thiết 19.6%🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 19.5%🇬🇧 Crawley 19.5%🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 19.5%Algiers🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 19.4%🇸🇰 Trnava 19.4%🇮🇳 Bengaluru 19.3%🇮🇹 Como 19.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 11.3% 277 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Amora 11.4%🇩🇪 Erfurt 11.4%🇩🇪 Essen 11.4%🇯🇵 Sendai 11.4%Algiers🇬🇧 Basingstoke 11.3%🇨🇳 Guangzhou 11.2%🇩🇪 Halle (Saale) 11.2%🇬🇧 St Albans 11.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 14.5% 92 of 1,878 🇨🇾 Kyrenia 14.8%🇺🇸 Lake Charles 14.7%🇰🇪 Nairobi 14.7%🇺🇸 San Antonio 14.6%Algiers🇰🇷 Daejeon 14.5%🇺🇸 Valdosta 14.5%🇨🇲 Yaoundé 14.5%🇹🇯 Hisor 14.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95.6% 43 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Plymouth 95.7%🇨🇴 Rionegro 95.7%🇺🇸 Rockford 95.7%🇨🇦 Victoria 95.7%Algiers🇺🇸 Baton Rouge 95.6%🇿🇦 Cape Town 95.6%🇬🇧 Livingston 95.6%🇲🇽 Mérida 95.6%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities