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The Anti-Awards

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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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🇬🇷 Greece · metro 3.2M · 9,935 venues mapped

Athens

Where Athens places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 21 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Athens in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇬🇷 Volos 168 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 📖 304 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, Jun, 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 & drink9,935 places mapped
10:00–24:00
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38%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
90h
open per week
9%
open 24/7
Shops & errands6,577 places mapped
08:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
27%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
12%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
2
muggy days a year
9
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
72
umbrella days a year
21.4 m
of rain since 1981
3,313
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
53.4 km
to Methana
22
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:09
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.8 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
12,290
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAthens RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 38% 21 of 1,878 🇸🇦 Dammam 39%🇬🇷 Corfu 38.5%🇰🇿 Astana 38.3%🇪🇸 Toledo 38.3%Athens🇲🇦 Agadir 37.5%🇪🇨 Manta 37.5%🇹🇷 Bursa 37%🇬🇷 Ioannina 35.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 90 h 64 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Zhytomyr 90.4 h🇺🇸 Escondido 90.2 h🇯🇵 Hanno 90.2 h🇺🇸 Yakima 90.1 hAthens🇺🇸 Baltimore 90 h🇺🇸 Buffalo 90 h🇷🇺 Kazan 90 h🇷🇺 Kirov 90 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.2% 290 of 1,878 🇬🇷 Chania 18.3%🇨🇿 České Budějovice 18.3%🇹🇷 Adana 18.2%🇵🇾 Asuncion 18.2%Athens🇨🇦 Barrie 18.2%🇫🇷 Creil 18.2%🇬🇧 King's Lynn 18.2%🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 18.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.8% 376 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Vladimir 0.9%🇸🇰 Žilina 0.9%🇺🇸 Alafaya 0.8%🇰🇿 Almaty 0.8%Athens🇮🇶 Baghdad 0.8%🇺🇸 Bellingham 0.8%🇺🇸 Cleveland 0.8%🇷🇴 Constanța 0.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 8.8% 143 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Norwalk 8.9%🇺🇸 Pensacola 8.9%🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 8.9%🇬🇧 Stafford 8.9%Athens🇯🇵 Gamagori 8.8%🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 8.8%🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 8.8%🇦🇺 Newcastle 8.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 26.6% 470 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Freilassing 27%🇩🇪 Berlin 26.9%🇩🇪 Minden 26.9%🇪🇸 Tarifa 26.7%Athens🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 26.6%🇩🇪 Ravensburg 26.6%🇩🇪 Bielefeld 26.2%🇩🇪 Essen 26.2%

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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