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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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.
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🇯🇴 Jordan · metro 6.4M · 802 venues mapped

Amman

Where Amman 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 15 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇵🇸 Nablus 71 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 📖 111 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Apr, 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 & drink802 places mapped
09:00–24:00
0006121824
30%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Shops & errands565 places mapped
08:00–24:00
0006121824
16%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
109h
open per week
13%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
33
umbrella days a year
8.8 m
of rain since 1981
6,551
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
159.8 km
to Ash Shaam, Harrat
1.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:36
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.2 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
10,993
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAmman RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 30% 43 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Posadas 31%🇮🇹 Piacenza 30.8%🇮🇹 L'Aquila 30.3%🇰🇿 Petropavl 30.2%Amman🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 30%🇳🇬 Lagos 29.8%🇮🇶 Al Hillah 29.6%🇨🇬 Pointe-Noire 29.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 98 h 37 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Lake Charles 98.2 h🇪🇹 Addis Ababa 98 h🇰🇿 Aktobe 98 h🇺🇸 Albany 98 hAmman🇹🇷 Ankara 98 h🇹🇷 Antalya 98 h🇰🇿 Astana 98 h🇮🇶 Baghdad 98 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 14% 332 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Nagoya 14.1%🇮🇹 Novara 14.1%🇬🇧 Preston 14.1%🇮🇩 Singkawang 14.1%Amman🇹🇭 Ko Samui 14%🇮🇹 Lucca 14%🇵🇹 Amora 13.9%🇧🇯 Cotonou 13.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Alappuzha 0%🇸🇾 Aleppo 0%🇪🇬 Alexandria 0%🇱🇰 Ambalangoda 0%Amman🇷🇺 Angarsk 0%🇹🇷 Ankara 0%🇹🇷 Antalya 0%🇯🇵 Aomori 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 12% 111 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 12.3%🇧🇷 Cuiabá 12.2%🇦🇱 Tirana 12.2%🇧🇷 Goiânia 12.1%Amman🇺🇸 Corpus Christi 12%🇧🇷 Belém 11.9%🇺🇸 Bossier City 11.9%🇺🇸 Jacksonville 11.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.4% 15 of 1,704 🇹🇼 Toufen 98.5%🇷🇺 Tyumen 98.5%🇷🇺 Voronezh 98.5%🇹🇷 Adana 98.4%Amman🇮🇶 Baghdad 98.4%🇬🇧 Basingstoke 98.4%🇷🇺 Belgorod 98.4%🇺🇸 Columbia 98.4%

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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