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
🇮🇹 Italy · metro 257k · 927 venues mapped

Cagliari

Where Cagliari 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 84 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Alghero 163 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Rome 📖 412 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, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink927 places mapped
12:00–23:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
35%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands387 places mapped
08:30–20:45
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
80h
open per week
6%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
51
muggy days a year
25
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
87
umbrella days a year
33.6 m
of rain since 1981
240
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
373.4 km
to Pantelleria
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:04
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.9 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,522
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCagliari RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.6% 224 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Waukegan 7.7%🇨🇭 Wettingen 7.7%🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 7.7%🇩🇿 Zeralda 7.7%Cagliari🇮🇳 Hyderabad 7.6%🇵🇹 Lisbon 7.6%🇮🇹 Pavia 7.6%🇬🇧 Sheffield 7.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 49 h 229 of 1,878 🇮🇪 Blanchardstown 49 h🇬🇧 Bognor Regis 49 h🇮🇹 Brindisi 49 h🇧🇪 Brussels 49 hCagliari🇯🇵 Hamamatsu 49 h🇳🇱 Helmond 49 h🇩🇪 Hildesheim 49 h🇧🇷 Joinville 49 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 20% 273 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Pisa 20.2%🇮🇹 Acireale 20%🇮🇳 Agra 20%🇮🇪 Blanchardstown 20%Cagliari🇪🇸 Dos Hermanas 20%🇳🇿 Dunedin 20%🇬🇧 Eastleigh 20%🇪🇸 Jaén 20%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 35.2% 84 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Brest 35.6%🇫🇷 Quimper 35.6%🇫🇷 Bayonne 35.4%🇪🇸 Cádiz 35.3%Cagliari🇪🇸 Motril 35.1%🇫🇷 La Rochelle 35%🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 34.9%🇫🇷 Nimes 34.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.9% 202 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Asbury Park 2.9%🇵🇹 Aveiro 2.9%🇨🇦 Barrie 2.9%🇺🇸 Bethlehem 2.9%Cagliari🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 2.9%🇨🇳 Dalian 2.9%🇪🇸 Dos Hermanas 2.9%🇦🇺 Geelong 2.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 87.9% 114 of 1,704 🇵🇹 Lisbon 88.1%🇦🇺 Melbourne 88.1%🇲🇽 Santiago de Querétaro 88%🇫🇷 Ajaccio 87.9%Cagliari🇦🇷 Cordoba 87.9%🇬🇧 Crewe 87.9%🇬🇧 Hereford 87.9%🇲🇺 Port Louis 87.9%

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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