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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CEE & Balkans16
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East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇮🇹 Italy · metro 303k · 1,275 venues mapped

Busto Arsizio

Where Busto Arsizio places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is vanish at lunch, where it ranks 7 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Gallarate 7 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Milan 📖 31 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Busto Arsizio does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,275 places mapped
11:38–23:00
0006121824
17%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
50%
take a midday break
Shops & errands454 places mapped
08:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
71%
open on Sundays
76h
open per week
27%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
10
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
124
umbrella days a year
44.5 m
of rain since 1981
987
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
456 km
to Chaine des Puys
1.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:44
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.7 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,732
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBusto Arsizio RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 17.3% 128 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg 17.5%🇺🇸 Hazel Park 17.4%🇨🇦 Saskatoon 17.4%🇺🇸 Birmingham 17.3%Busto Arsizio🇺🇸 National City 17.3%🇺🇸 Stockton 17.3%🇺🇸 Visalia 17.3%🇯🇵 Fujieda 17.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 52.5 h 214 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Alkmaar 52.8 h🇫🇷 Cergy 52.8 h🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch 52.5 h🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 52.5 hBusto Arsizio🇧🇴 Cochabamba 52.5 h🇪🇸 Cádiz 52.5 h🇯🇵 Fukushima 52.5 h🇩🇪 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 52.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 22.2% 253 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 22.4%🇳🇿 Christchurch 22.4%🇮🇹 Brescia 22.3%🇬🇧 Guildford 22.3%Busto Arsizio🇵🇷 Caguas 22.2%🇪🇸 Elda 22.2%🇨🇳 Harbin 22.2%🇹🇼 Hsinchu 22.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 50.4% 7 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Niort 52.3%🇫🇷 Blois 50.9%🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 50.9%🇫🇷 Montbéliard 50.7%Busto Arsizio🇫🇷 Poitiers 50%🇫🇷 Colmar 49.7%🇫🇷 Reims 49.3%🇫🇷 Cergy 49.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Brest 0%🇨🇴 Bucaramanga 0%🇰🇷 Busan 0%🇳🇱 Bussum 0%Busto Arsizio🇫🇷 Béziers 0%🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 0%🇫🇷 Caen 0%🇵🇷 Caguas 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 71.2% 241 of 1,704 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 71.4%🇳🇮 Managua 71.4%🇵🇹 Ponta Delgada 71.4%🇨🇿 České Budějovice 71.4%Busto Arsizio🇮🇹 Treviso 71.2%🇭🇺 Pécs 71.1%🇵🇹 Évora 71.1%🇮🇳 Kochi 71%

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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