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
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · metro 1.1M · 316 venues mapped

Ashgabat

Where Ashgabat 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 30 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇮🇷 Mashhad 213 km Nearest written profile 🇦🇲 Yerevan 📖 1,222 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, Sep, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands527 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Food & drink316 places mapped
09:00–23:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
7
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
43
umbrella days a year
8.5 m
of rain since 1981
4,988
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
600.1 km
to Damavand
4.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:51
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.8 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
9,789
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAshgabat RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 0.8% 292 of 1,878 🇲🇲 Twante 1.1%🇿🇦 Durban 1%🇺🇦 Dnipro 0.9%🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 0.9%Ashgabat🇹🇿 Mwanza 0.8%🇵🇭 Agoo 0.7%🇻🇳 Cần Thơ 0.7%🇿🇦 Diepsloot 0.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇷🇸 Novi Sad 91.5 h🇺🇸 South Bend 91.5 h🇯🇵 Akashi 91 h🇱🇰 Ambalangoda 91 hAshgabat🇷🇺 Astrakhan 91 h🇺🇸 Aurora 91 h🇷🇺 Azov 91 h🇷🇺 Bataysk 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8% 392 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg 8.1%🇩🇪 Aalen 8%🇬🇭 Accra 8%🇺🇿 Asaka 8%Ashgabat🇮🇱 Jerusalem 8%🇯🇵 Kanazawa 8%🇫🇷 Mulhouse 8%🇷🇺 Obninsk 8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Aomori 0%🇵🇭 Apalit 0%🇷🇴 Arad 0%🇺🇿 Asaka 0%Ashgabat🇺🇸 Atascocita 0%🇺🇸 Atlantic City 0%🇮🇳 Attingal 0%🇰🇿 Atyrau 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.8% 183 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Brandon 4.9%🇵🇭 Dumaguete 4.9%🇺🇸 Lake Ronkonkoma 4.9%🇸🇻 San Salvador 4.9%Ashgabat🇺🇸 Atlantic City 4.8%🇬🇧 Basildon 4.8%🇺🇸 Bentonville 4.8%🇺🇦 Druzhkivka 4.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.9% 30 of 1,704 🇰🇿 Petropavl 97%🇺🇸 Simi Valley 97%🇸🇬 Singapore 97%🇺🇸 Washington 97%Ashgabat🇺🇸 Bloomington 96.9%🇺🇸 Boulder 96.9%🇺🇸 Concord 96.9%🇺🇸 Conway 96.9%

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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