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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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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.

Read the method →
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.

Every city, A–Z →
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
🇨🇳 China · metro 18.2M · 4,585 venues mapped

Beijing

Where Beijing 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 21 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇨🇳 Fangshan 42 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇳 Hefei 📖 898 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, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink4,585 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,527 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
93h
open per week
25%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
33
muggy days a year
2
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
74
umbrella days a year
25.5 m
of rain since 1981
3,606
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
334.1 km
to Honggeertu
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:53
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
7,991
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBeijing RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.5% 215 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Toulon 8.6%🇷🇺 Vyborg 8.6%🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 8.5%🇺🇸 Aurora 8.5%Beijing🇺🇸 Blue Springs 8.5%🇺🇸 Camarillo 8.5%🇬🇧 Camberley 8.5%🇺🇸 Chicago Heights 8.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇧🇳 Bandar Seri Begawan 84 h🇮🇩 Bandung 84 h🇹🇷 Bandırma 84 h🇷🇺 Barnaul 84 hBeijing🇮🇳 Bengaluru 84 h🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 84 h🇷🇴 Brasov 84 h🇧🇾 Brest 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.1% 371 of 1,878 🇨🇱 Penco 10.2%🇷🇺 Samara 10.2%🇷🇺 Saratov 10.2%🇰🇿 Almaty 10.1%Beijing🇱🇧 Beirut 10.1%🇯🇵 Gamagori 10.1%🇫🇷 Marseille 10.1%🇬🇧 Plymouth 10.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.5% 349 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Merced 3.6%🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 3.6%🇨🇦 Vancouver 3.6%🇺🇸 Bakersfield 3.5%Beijing🇲🇦 Rabat 3.5%🇳🇱 Roosendaal 3.5%🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs 3.5%🇺🇸 Trenton 3.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7.7% 154 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Maple Ridge 7.8%🇹🇳 Tunis 7.8%🇺🇸 Arlington 7.7%🇺🇸 Atlanta 7.7%Beijing🇬🇧 Birmingham 7.7%🇬🇧 Burnley 7.7%🇷🇺 Cheboksary 7.7%🇯🇵 Echizen 7.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.8% 21 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Arlington 97.8%🇺🇸 Austin 97.8%🇷🇺 Azov 97.8%🇷🇺 Barnaul 97.8%Beijing🇺🇸 Buffalo 97.8%🇺🇸 Dallas 97.8%🇺🇸 Detroit 97.8%🇹🇷 Fethiye 97.8%

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, shops open on sunday.

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