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
🇮🇹 Italy · metro 30k · 325 venues mapped

Aosta

Where Aosta places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is vanish at lunch, where it ranks 3 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇮🇹 Turin 📖 80 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jul — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink325 places mapped
12:00–22:00
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
53%
take a midday break
Shops & errands68 places mapped
08:00–19:45
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
46%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
146
umbrella days a year
38.7 m
of rain since 1981
1
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
336.4 km
to Chaine des Puys
1.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:49
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.7 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,851
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAosta RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.9% 241 of 1,878 🇹🇼 Taipei 6%🇮🇹 Trento 6%🇺🇸 Williamsburg 6%🇯🇵 Aomori 5.9%Aosta🇬🇧 Brighton 5.9%🇪🇨 Cuenca 5.9%🇺🇸 Edmond 5.9%🇺🇸 Honolulu 5.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 41.5 h 257 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Resistencia 42 h🇧🇷 Santa Maria 42 h🇵🇪 Tacna 42 h🇫🇷 Valence 42 hAosta🇧🇪 Frameries 40.9 h🇫🇷 Arles 40.5 h🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 40.5 h🇧🇷 Araraquara 40 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 23.5% 242 of 1,878 🇺🇸 State College 23.7%🇹🇼 Taitung 23.7%🇮🇹 Varese 23.7%🇮🇹 Ravenna 23.6%Aosta🇮🇩 Mataram 23.5%🇺🇸 Tallahassee 23.5%🇮🇹 Tivoli 23.5%🇺🇸 Dunwoody 23.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 52.9% 3 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Vichy 54.2%🇪🇸 Almeria 53.5%Aosta🇫🇷 Bourges 52.9%🇫🇷 Sète 52.9%🇫🇷 Niort 52.3%🇫🇷 Blois 50.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Ancona 0%🇹🇷 Ankara 0%🇺🇸 Antioch 0%🇨🇱 Antofagasta 0%Aosta🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 0%🇮🇹 Arezzo 0%🇫🇷 Arles 0%🇨🇴 Armenia 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 45.5% 391 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 46.1%🇪🇸 Sant Boi de Llobregat 46.1%🇨🇿 Frýdek-Místek 45.8%🇵🇱 Gliwice 45.6%Aosta🇪🇸 Torrevieja 45.3%🇹🇿 Mwanza 45%🇫🇷 Colmar 44.6%🇩🇪 Flensburg 44.6%

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.

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