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
🇮🇳 India · metro 15.2M · 7,175 venues mapped

Bengaluru

Where Bengaluru 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 70 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇮🇳 Mysuru 128 km Nearest written profile 🇴🇲 Muscat 📖 2,340 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jan, Feb, 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 & drink7,175 places mapped
10:00–23:00
0006121824
7%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
17%
take a midday break
Shops & errands2,759 places mapped
08:30–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
5%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
47
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
126
umbrella days a year
38.9 m
of rain since 1981
7,411
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1766.2 km
to Barren Island
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:59
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.9 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
6,446
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBengaluru RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.9% 231 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Saratov 7%🇧🇬 Sofia 7%🇮🇹 Alessandria 6.9%🇺🇸 Baltimore 6.9%Bengaluru🇧🇾 Brest 6.9%🇺🇸 Brockton 6.9%🇩🇪 Gießen 6.9%🇧🇷 Goiânia 6.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Bandung 84 h🇹🇷 Bandırma 84 h🇷🇺 Barnaul 84 h🇨🇳 Beijing 84 hBengaluru🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 84 h🇷🇴 Brasov 84 h🇧🇾 Brest 84 h🇷🇴 Bucharest 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 19.3% 280 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 19.5%🇩🇿 Algiers 19.4%🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 19.4%🇸🇰 Trnava 19.4%Bengaluru🇮🇹 Como 19.3%🇮🇩 Denpasar 19.3%🇨🇴 Medellín 19.3%🇮🇹 Verona 19.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 16.9% 231 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Venice 17.2%🇧🇷 Campinas 17%🇩🇪 Iserlohn 17%🇪🇸 Toledo 17%Bengaluru🇯🇵 Otsu 16.9%🇯🇵 Kobe 16.7%🇨🇳 Kunming 16.7%🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 16.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1% 221 of 1,878 🇨🇱 Penco 1.1%🇩🇪 Regensburg 1.1%🇺🇸 San Francisco 1.1%🇸🇪 Södertälje 1.1%Bengaluru🇻🇪 Caracas 1%🇺🇸 Corvallis 1%🇳🇴 Drammen 1%🇿🇦 Durban 1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 92.9% 70 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Pontefract 93%🇬🇧 Southampton 93%🇱🇹 Šiauliai 93%🇮🇳 Attingal 92.9%Bengaluru🇨🇦 Calgary 92.9%🇨🇴 Cartagena 92.9%🇺🇸 Cheyenne 92.9%🇦🇺 Hobart 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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