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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The index

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

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Southern Europe21
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Western Europe20
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North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇺🇸 United States · metro 40k · 305 venues mapped

Atlantic City

Where Atlantic City 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 16 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Philadelphia 91 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 636 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Atlantic City does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink305 places mapped
06:00–21:00
0006121824
14%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
107h
open per week
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
59
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
132
umbrella days a year
52.4 m
of rain since 1981
149
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2647.4 km
to Saba
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:38
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.9 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,775
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAtlantic City RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.3% 157 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Hachioji 14.4%🇯🇵 Hino 14.4%🇺🇸 Oklahoma City 14.4%🇺🇸 Waco 14.4%Atlantic City🇬🇧 Bangor 14.3%🇺🇸 Grand Rapids 14.3%🇮🇹 Modena 14.3%🇬🇧 Newry 14.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 107 h 16 of 1,878 🇺🇸 New Bedford 108.5 h🇭🇰 Tai Po 108.5 h🇪🇬 Hurghada 107.7 h🇺🇸 Abilene 107 hAtlantic City🇺🇸 Oxford 107 h🇻🇳 Thái Nguyên 106.8 h🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi 105 h🇹🇷 Alanya 105 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 47.6% 49 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Abilene 48.4%🇺🇸 Sandusky 48.1%🇺🇸 Dothan 48%🇺🇸 Fall River 47.7%Atlantic City🇺🇸 Memphis 47.6%🇹🇿 Mwanza 47.6%🇺🇸 Davenport 47.5%🇺🇸 Indianapolis 47.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Arad 0%🇺🇿 Asaka 0%🇹🇲 Ashgabat 0%🇺🇸 Atascocita 0%Atlantic City🇮🇳 Attingal 0%🇰🇿 Atyrau 0%🇷🇺 Azov 0%🇦🇿 Baku 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.8% 183 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Dumaguete 4.9%🇺🇸 Lake Ronkonkoma 4.9%🇸🇻 San Salvador 4.9%🇹🇲 Ashgabat 4.8%Atlantic City🇬🇧 Basildon 4.8%🇺🇸 Bentonville 4.8%🇺🇦 Druzhkivka 4.8%🇨🇦 Fredericton 4.8%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities