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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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 45k · 262 venues mapped

Ascoli Piceno

Where Ascoli Piceno 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 125 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Civitanova Marche 52 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Rome 📖 138 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Best time to visit May, Jun, Jul, Aug, 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 & drink262 places mapped
09:00–22:30
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12%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
29%
take a midday break
Shops & errands70 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
51%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
26%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
7
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
120
umbrella days a year
31.1 m
of rain since 1981
1,391
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
140.5 km
to Colli Albani
18.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:35
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.3 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,287
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAscoli Piceno RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.6% 184 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Manchester 11.7%🇧🇷 Niterói 11.7%🇺🇸 Norman 11.7%🇨🇺 Varadero 11.7%Ascoli Piceno🇺🇸 Columbus 11.6%🇺🇸 Harrisonburg 11.6%🇷🇺 Stavropol 11.6%🇬🇧 Telford 11.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 69.8 h 140 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Wrocław 70 h🇯🇵 Yamagata 70 h🇨🇿 České Budějovice 70 h🇵🇱 Świnoujście 70 hAscoli Piceno🇬🇧 Cardiff 69.5 h🇺🇸 Concord 69.5 h🇪🇸 Dos Hermanas 69.5 h🇬🇧 Durham 69.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 34.9% 140 of 1,878 🇿🇦 Pretoria 35.1%🇮🇹 Ancona 35%🇺🇸 Modesto 35%🇺🇸 Rockford 35%Ascoli Piceno🇺🇸 Hazel Park 34.9%🇺🇸 Springfield 34.9%🇺🇸 Flagstaff 34.8%🇺🇸 Norfolk 34.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 29.1% 125 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Cannes 29.3%🇱🇺 Luxembourg 29.3%🇯🇵 Yokote 29.3%🇮🇹 Vicenza 29.2%Ascoli Piceno🇨🇭 Wettingen 29%🇮🇹 Bergamo 28.9%🇧🇪 Roeselare 28.7%🇪🇸 Reus 28.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 0%🇮🇹 Arezzo 0%🇫🇷 Arles 0%🇨🇴 Armenia 0%Ascoli Piceno🇮🇹 Asti 0%🇪🇸 Avilés 0%🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 0%🇦🇷 Bahía Blanca 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 51.4% 365 of 1,704 🇵🇱 Rzeszów 52.3%🇦🇷 Ushuaia 52%🇵🇱 Radom 51.9%🇮🇹 Perugia 51.7%Ascoli Piceno🇧🇪 Kortrijk 51.4%🇫🇷 Niort 51.4%🇸🇰 Trnava 51.1%🇳🇱 Zwolle 51%

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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