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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🇪🇬 Egypt · metro 25.2M · 1,731 venues mapped

Cairo

Where Cairo places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 7 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇬 Alexandria 180 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 📖 404 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Mar, Apr, May, Oct, Nov — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,731 places mapped
07:30–24:00
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28%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
118h
open per week
35%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,715 places mapped
08:00–24:00
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10%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
119h
open per week
43%
open 24/7
Services652 places mapped
00:00–24:00
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11%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
57%
open 24/7
Culture329 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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13%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
79h
open per week
9%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
4
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
18
umbrella days a year
2.8 m
of rain since 1981
8,505
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
653 km
to Ash Shaam, Harrat
1.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:00
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.1 h
longest day of the year
16
public holidays, 2024
11,265
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCairo RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 28.5% 49 of 1,878 🇲🇦 Tangier 29.2%🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi 28.8%🇪🇸 Huelva 28.6%🇹🇷 Izmir 28.6%Cairo🇪🇸 Málaga 28.4%🇮🇹 Messina 28%🇦🇷 Cordoba 27.9%🇮🇹 Brindisi 27.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 118.5 h 7 of 1,878 🇮🇶 Al Hillah 122.5 h🇦🇱 Fier 119 h🇮🇶 Karbala 119 h🇲🇻 Malé 119 hCairo🇹🇷 Batman 115.5 h🇲🇦 Agadir 113.8 h🇺🇸 Texarkana 113 h🇧🇦 Banja Luka 112 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 16.7% 305 of 1,878 🇮🇪 Dublin 16.8%🇬🇧 Harlow 16.8%🇮🇹 Venice 16.8%🇬🇧 Warrington 16.8%Cairo🇧🇷 Campo Grande 16.7%🇬🇧 Carlisle 16.7%🇬🇧 Redditch 16.7%🇸🇻 Sonsonate 16.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.7% 377 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Wilkes-Barre 0.8%🇵🇪 Arequipa 0.7%🇺🇸 Bloomington 0.7%🇳🇱 Breda 0.7%Cairo🇺🇸 Florence 0.7%🇺🇸 Glen Burnie 0.7%🇳🇱 Helmond 0.7%🇺🇸 Huntington Station 0.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 34.7% 12 of 1,878 🇮🇶 Al Hillah 40.7%🇮🇶 Karbala 40%🇳🇪 Niamey 40%🇹🇷 Batman 38.9%Cairo🇲🇻 Malé 34.3%🇷🇺 Zelenograd 33.5%🇨🇩 Kinshasa 33.3%🇵🇭 Manila 32.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.1% 28 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Norfolk 97.2%🇯🇵 Okayama 97.2%🇺🇸 Syracuse 97.2%🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 97.1%Cairo🇬🇧 Cannock 97.1%🇺🇸 Fargo 97.1%🇯🇵 Gamagori 97.1%🇷🇺 Gelendzhik 97.1%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities