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.
The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇮🇹 Italy · metro 71k · 311 venues mapped

Asti

Where Asti 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 95 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Alessandria 32 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Turin 📖 45 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, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink311 places mapped
11:15–22:45
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17%
open past midnight
78%
open on Sundays
61h
open per week
33%
take a midday break
Shops & errands104 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
44%
open on Sundays
81h
open per week
31%
take a midday break
6%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
9
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
109
umbrella days a year
38.1 m
of rain since 1981
1,655
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
420.1 km
to Chaine des Puys
2.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:49
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.6 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,762
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAsti RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 16.7% 133 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Vila Real 17.1%🇨🇦 Cambridge 17%🇱🇺 Luxembourg 17%🇺🇸 Hamilton 16.9%Asti🇦🇷 La Plata 16.7%🇺🇸 Little Elm 16.7%🇵🇪 Pisco 16.7%🇵🇪 Piura 16.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 61 h 177 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 61.5 h🇮🇹 Trento 61.5 h🇮🇹 Florence 61.3 h🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 61.2 hAsti🇳🇿 Auckland 61 h🇨🇭 Bern 61 h🇬🇧 Chesterfield 61 h🇬🇧 Inverness 61 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 36.1% 128 of 1,878 🇰🇭 Phnom Penh 36.4%🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 36.3%🇺🇸 Dallas 36.3%🇬🇧 Coventry 36.2%Asti🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 36.1%🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 36.1%🇺🇸 Birmingham 36%🇦🇺 Toowoomba 36%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 33.3% 95 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Lausanne 33.7%🇫🇷 Tours 33.7%🇵🇹 Évora 33.6%🇮🇹 Pisa 33.5%Asti🇪🇸 Cartagena 33.3%🇪🇸 Cáceres 33.3%🇮🇹 L'Aquila 33.3%🇫🇷 Le Mans 33.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Arezzo 0%🇫🇷 Arles 0%🇨🇴 Armenia 0%🇮🇹 Ascoli Piceno 0%Asti🇪🇸 Avilés 0%🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 0%🇦🇷 Bahía Blanca 0%🇩🇪 Bamberg 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 43.8% 397 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Flensburg 44.6%🇩🇪 Kehl 44.6%🇸🇰 Prievidza 44.4%🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 44.2%Asti🇨🇭 Montreux 43.5%🇪🇸 Terrassa 43.5%🇫🇷 Metz 42.6%🇧🇷 Santa Maria 42.6%

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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