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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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
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North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · metro 2.0M · 3,154 venues mapped

Baku

Where Baku 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 9 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇮🇷 Rasht 346 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇪 Tbilisi 📖 449 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, Jul, 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 & errands3,772 places mapped
07:30–23:00
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
112h
open per week
22%
open 24/7
Food & drink3,154 places mapped
09:00–24:00
0006121824
24%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
15%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
38
muggy days a year
31
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
58
umbrella days a year
12.1 m
of rain since 1981
559
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
339.3 km
to Tskhouk-Karckar
9.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:17
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.1 h
longest day of the year
33
public holidays, 2024
10,515
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBaku RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 23.9% 73 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Green Bay 24.3%🇺🇸 Missoula 24.2%🇰🇼 Kuwait City 24.1%🇺🇸 Texarkana 24.1%Baku🇺🇸 Cedar Rapids 23.8%🇪🇸 A Coruña 23.7%🇶🇦 Doha 23.6%🇹🇷 Istanbul 23.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 98 h 37 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Ankara 98 h🇹🇷 Antalya 98 h🇰🇿 Astana 98 h🇮🇶 Baghdad 98 hBaku🇮🇩 Banjaran 98 h🇹🇷 Bodrum 98 h🇲🇦 Bouskoura 98 h🇺🇿 Bukhara 98 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 3.4% 438 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Magdeburg 3.5%🇩🇰 Aalborg 3.4%🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 3.4%🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 3.4%Baku🇺🇦 Cherkasy 3.4%🇩🇪 Gießen 3.4%🇧🇴 La Paz 3.4%🇳🇱 Leiden 3.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Atlantic City 0%🇮🇳 Attingal 0%🇰🇿 Atyrau 0%🇷🇺 Azov 0%Baku🇲🇱 Bamako 0%🇵🇭 Bamban 0%🇮🇩 Bandung 0%🇧🇦 Banja Luka 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 15.4% 85 of 1,878 🇰🇿 Aktobe 15.6%🇨🇺 Havana 15.5%🇨🇦 Airdrie 15.4%🇰🇿 Atyrau 15.4%Baku🇮🇷 Yazd 15.4%🇦🇺 Ballarat 15.2%🇺🇸 Fair Oaks 15.2%🇨🇳 Changsha 15%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 99% 9 of 1,704 🇺🇦 Lutsk 99.1%🇷🇺 Maykop 99.1%🇷🇺 Podolsk 99.1%🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg 99.1%Baku🇹🇼 Hsinchu 99%🇷🇺 Odintsovo 99%🇷🇺 Samara 99%🇯🇵 Sapporo 99%

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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