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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Southern Europe21
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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
🇹🇭 Thailand · metro 19.0M · 11,568 venues mapped

Bangkok

Where Bangkok 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 20 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Bangkok in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇹🇭 Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya 67 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 583 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink11,568 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
7%
open 24/7
Shops & errands4,865 places mapped
00:00–24:00
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1%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
62%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
305
muggy days a year
146
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
190
umbrella days a year
61 m
of rain since 1981
13,929
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
738.2 km
to Barren Island
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:56
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.9 h
longest day of the year
29
public holidays, 2024
5,339
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBangkok RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.9% 211 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Southgate 9%🇺🇸 Turlock 9%🇫🇷 Valence 9%🇺🇸 Auburn 8.9%Bangkok🇲🇩 Chișinău 8.9%🇮🇪 Kilkenny 8.9%🇯🇵 Kisarazu 8.9%🇫🇷 Marseille 8.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 76.8 h 113 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Wilmington 77 h🇰🇷 Wonju 77 h🇪🇸 Benidorm 76.9 h🇫🇷 Arras 76.8 hBangkok🇬🇧 Southport 76.8 h🇺🇸 Fort Collins 76.5 h🇨🇦 London 76.5 h🇪🇨 Puyo 76.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 19% 283 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Terrassa 19.2%🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 19.2%🇺🇸 Key West 19.1%🇱🇾 Tripoli 19.1%Bangkok🇮🇹 Ferrara 19%🇸🇰 Prešov 19%🇧🇩 Savar 19%🇯🇵 Shizuoka 19%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.8% 366 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Talegaon Dabhade 1.9%🇨🇦 Toronto 1.9%🇺🇸 Tulsa 1.9%🇺🇸 Ames 1.8%Bangkok🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 1.8%🇺🇸 Cheyenne 1.8%🇳🇱 Gouda 1.8%🇺🇸 Grand Junction 1.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.7% 164 of 1,878 🇻🇳 Nha Trang 6.8%🇧🇷 Paranoá 6.8%🇮🇩 Pekanbaru 6.8%🇺🇸 Phoenix 6.8%Bangkok🇨🇦 Cambridge 6.7%🇨🇴 Duitama 6.7%🇲🇾 Ipoh 6.7%🇮🇳 Koyilandy 6.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.9% 20 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 98%🇯🇵 Tokyo 98%🇺🇸 Virginia Beach 98%🇯🇵 Wakayama 98%Bangkok🇬🇧 Blackpool 97.9%🇺🇸 Escondido 97.9%🇬🇧 Maidenhead 97.9%🇺🇸 Newport News 97.9%

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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