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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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇺🇸 United States · metro 66k · 254 venues mapped

Ames

Where Ames 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 54 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Des Moines 48 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 1,172 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Ames does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink254 places mapped
08:30–22:00
0006121824
7%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
92h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands69 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
27%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
28
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
103
umbrella days a year
39.5 m
of rain since 1981
1,581
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1157.5 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:46
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.2 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
17,185
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAmes RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.3% 227 of 1,878 🇭🇷 Pula 7.4%🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 7.4%🇯🇵 Tsukuba 7.4%🇩🇪 Ulm 7.4%Ames🇫🇷 Creil 7.3%🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 7.3%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 7.3%🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 7.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 92.5 h 54 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Hefei 92.8 h🇺🇸 Lawrenceville 92.8 h🇮🇩 Makassar 92.8 h🇮🇳 Udaipur 92.8 hAmes🇬🇧 Cannock 92.5 h🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 92.5 h🇺🇸 Newport News 92.2 h🇺🇸 Bridgeport 92 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 40% 96 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Warren 40.4%🇺🇸 Miami 40.2%🇺🇸 Cleveland 40.1%🇺🇸 Allen 40%Ames🇮🇹 Messina 40%🇺🇸 Greeley 39.9%🇺🇸 Jacksonville Beach 39.8%🇻🇳 Đà Nẵng 39.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.8% 366 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Stockholm 1.9%🇮🇳 Talegaon Dabhade 1.9%🇨🇦 Toronto 1.9%🇺🇸 Tulsa 1.9%Ames🇹🇭 Bangkok 1.8%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 1.8%🇺🇸 Cheyenne 1.8%🇳🇱 Gouda 1.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.6% 195 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Shrewsbury 3.7%🇮🇳 Talegaon Dabhade 3.7%🇺🇸 Tampa 3.7%🇺🇦 Zhytomyr 3.7%Ames🇬🇧 Ashford 3.6%🇬🇧 Chester 3.6%🇺🇸 College Station 3.6%🇺🇸 Colorado Springs 3.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 86.7% 124 of 1,704 🇨🇿 Liberec 87%🇬🇧 Luton 87%🇲🇽 Mexico City 87%🇨🇦 Regina 86.8%Ames🇮🇹 Civitanova Marche 86.7%🇨🇳 Dalian 86.7%🇲🇽 Guadalupe 86.7%🇯🇵 Komatsu 86.7%

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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