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.
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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
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Western Europe20
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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
🇰🇷 South Korea · metro 3.3M · 861 venues mapped

Busan

Where Busan 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 1 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Busan in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇰🇷 Changwon 35 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Fukuoka 📖 210 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink861 places mapped
10:15–22:00
0006121824
16%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
80h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
Shops & errands257 places mapped
07:30–23:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
37%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
80
muggy days a year
22
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
107
umbrella days a year
66.3 m
of rain since 1981
334
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
237.2 km
to Abu
1.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:16
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.5 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
7,582
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBusan RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 15.9% 141 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Springfield 16%🇦🇺 Toowoomba 16%🇮🇹 Trapani 16%🇺🇸 Bakersfield 15.9%Busan🇫🇷 Lille 15.9%🇺🇸 Brandon 15.8%🇮🇹 Cervia 15.8%🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 15.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 80.5 h 96 of 1,878 🇨🇺 Santiago de Cuba 80.8 h🇺🇸 Auburn 80.5 h🇵🇹 Barreiro 80.5 h🇬🇧 Basildon 80.5 hBusan🇺🇸 Denver 80.5 h🇯🇵 Fujieda 80.5 h🇯🇵 Fukuchiyama 80.5 h🇵🇹 Funchal 80.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.8% 404 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Stuttgart 6.9%🇯🇵 Yokote 6.9%🇩🇪 Zwickau 6.9%🇷🇺 Barnaul 6.8%Busan🇫🇷 Cannes 6.8%🇨🇷 Cartago 6.8%🇸🇳 Dakar 6.8%🇬🇧 Darlington 6.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 9.1% 293 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Fortaleza 9.4%🇦🇺 Wollongong 9.4%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 9.3%🇬🇧 High Wycombe 9.3%Busan🇬🇧 Cambridge 9.1%🇬🇧 King's Lynn 9.1%🇺🇸 Portland 9.1%🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 9.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Bradenton 0%🇩🇪 Bremerhaven 0%🇫🇷 Brest 0%🇨🇴 Bucaramanga 0%Busan🇳🇱 Bussum 0%🇮🇹 Busto Arsizio 0%🇫🇷 Béziers 0%🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Bradenton 100%🇺🇸 Bridgeport 100%🇺🇿 Bukhara 100%🇬🇧 Burnley 100%Busan🇵🇭 Cabiao 100%🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 100%🇺🇸 Camarillo 100%🇺🇸 Campbell 100%

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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