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
🇳🇿 New Zealand · metro 1.6M · 5,376 venues mapped

Auckland

Where Auckland 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 69 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Auckland in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇳🇿 Hamilton 114 km Nearest written profile 🇦🇺 Sydney 📖 2,156 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Auckland 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 & drink5,376 places mapped
10:30–21:00
0006121824
4%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
61h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,970 places mapped
07:30–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
2
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
162
umbrella days a year
48.9 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
6.2 km
to Auckland Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:11
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.7 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
5,346
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAuckland RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.5% 265 of 1,878 🇸🇰 Trnava 3.6%🇬🇧 Warwick 3.6%🇨🇳 Zhujiajiao 3.6%🇫🇷 Arles 3.5%Auckland🇩🇪 Bonn 3.4%🇺🇸 Bridgeport 3.4%🇮🇳 Chennai 3.4%🇺🇦 Cherkasy 3.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 61 h 177 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Trento 61.5 h🇮🇹 Florence 61.3 h🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 61.2 h🇮🇹 Asti 61 hAuckland🇨🇭 Bern 61 h🇬🇧 Chesterfield 61 h🇬🇧 Inverness 61 h🇨🇦 Kelowna 61 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 22.5% 250 of 1,878 🇲🇲 Yangon 22.7%🇲🇽 Hermosillo 22.6%🇪🇸 Lugo 22.6%🇬🇧 Reigate 22.6%Auckland🇮🇹 Forlì 22.5%🇮🇹 Rimini 22.5%🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo 22.5%🇨🇳 Zhaoqing 22.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 9.8% 288 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Lüneburg 10%🇭🇹 Port-au-Prince 10%🇰🇷 Seogwipo 10%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 10%Auckland🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 9.8%🇬🇧 Oxford 9.6%🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 9.6%🇬🇧 Ashford 9.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4% 191 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Tulum 4.1%🇬🇧 Weston-super-Mare 4.1%🇺🇸 White Plains 4.1%🇱🇹 Šiauliai 4.1%Auckland🇺🇸 Austin 4%🇧🇷 Blumenau 4%🇮🇳 Chennai 4%🇰🇷 Gwangju 4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93% 69 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Exeter 93.1%🇬🇧 Harrogate 93.1%🇲🇽 Puebla 93.1%🇷🇺 Astrakhan 93%Auckland🇬🇧 Pontefract 93%🇬🇧 Southampton 93%🇱🇹 Šiauliai 93%🇮🇳 Attingal 92.9%

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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