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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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
🇷🇴 Romania · metro 120k · 273 venues mapped

Arad

Where Arad 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 82 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇷🇴 Timișoara 48 km Nearest written profile 🇷🇸 Belgrade 📖 167 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, 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
Shops & errands278 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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1%
open past midnight
77%
open on Sundays
100h
open per week
7%
open 24/7
Food & drink273 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
7%
open past midnight
65%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
7%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
112
umbrella days a year
26.6 m
of rain since 1981
2,045
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
814.5 km
to Vesuvius
2.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:52
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.8 h
longest day of the year
17
public holidays, 2024
12,828
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureArad RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.4% 226 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Saga 7.5%🇺🇸 San Clemente 7.5%🇩🇪 Stuttgart 7.5%🇯🇵 Wakayama 7.5%Arad🇨🇴 Cúcuta 7.4%🇺🇸 Flagstaff 7.4%🇳🇱 Heemskerk 7.4%🇩🇪 Ingolstadt 7.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇩🇿 Algiers 84 h🇷🇺 Angarsk 84 h🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 84 h🇺🇸 Appleton 84 hArad🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 84 h🇺🇸 Asbury Park 84 h🇮🇳 Attingal 84 h🇧🇳 Bandar Seri Begawan 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 14.8% 324 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Glasgow 14.9%🇪🇸 Ibiza 14.9%🇪🇸 Murcia 14.9%🇮🇷 Tabriz 14.9%Arad🇰🇷 Cheongju-si 14.8%🇨🇴 Cúcuta 14.8%🇨🇦 Sherwood Park 14.8%🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 14.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Ankara 0%🇹🇷 Antalya 0%🇯🇵 Aomori 0%🇵🇭 Apalit 0%Arad🇺🇿 Asaka 0%🇹🇲 Ashgabat 0%🇺🇸 Atascocita 0%🇺🇸 Atlantic City 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7.4% 157 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Curitiba 7.5%🇰🇿 Petropavl 7.5%🇲🇽 Puebla 7.5%🇮🇷 Tabriz 7.5%Arad🇹🇷 Bursa 7.4%🇲🇦 Essaouira 7.4%🇨🇦 Hamilton 7.4%🇨🇳 Harbin 7.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 76.9% 202 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Les Sables-d'Olonne 77.1%🇬🇦 Libreville 77.1%🇫🇷 Lille 77.1%🇨🇿 Pilsen 77.1%Arad🇸🇻 San Salvador 76.8%🇨🇴 Barranquilla 76.7%🇧🇷 Maringá 76.7%🇫🇷 Royan 76.6%

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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