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
🇻🇳 Vietnam · metro 1.7M · 875 venues mapped

Cần Thơ

Where Cần Thơ 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 18 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 📖 127 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink875 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
18%
open 24/7
Shops & errands175 places mapped
07:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
10%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
342
muggy days a year
117
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
210
umbrella days a year
69.7 m
of rain since 1981
11,462
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
353.4 km
to Cendres, Ile des
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.7 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
4,790
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCần Thơ RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 0.7% 293 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 0.9%🇹🇲 Ashgabat 0.8%🇹🇿 Mwanza 0.8%🇵🇭 Agoo 0.7%Cần Thơ🇿🇦 Diepsloot 0.7%🇩🇪 Schwerin 0.7%🇩🇪 Lüdenscheid 0.6%🇩🇪 Zwickau 0.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 105 h 18 of 1,878 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi 105 h🇹🇷 Alanya 105 h🇲🇪 Budva 105 h🇺🇸 Chicago Heights 105 hCần Thơ🇦🇪 Dubai 105 h🇻🇳 Huế 105 h🇺🇸 Jacksonville 105 h🇺🇸 Jonesboro 105 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 42.2% 78 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Killeen 42.4%🇺🇸 Panama City 42.4%🇺🇸 Huntington 42.3%🇺🇸 Lafayette 42.3%Cần Thơ🇺🇸 Iowa City 42.2%🇺🇸 Salem 42.2%🇺🇸 Albuquerque 42.1%🇺🇸 Muncie 42.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 8.8% 296 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Miri 8.9%🇺🇾 Montevideo 8.9%🇧🇷 São Paulo 8.9%🇧🇷 Arujá 8.8%Cần Thơ🇬🇧 Inverness 8.8%🇮🇹 Lecce 8.8%🇬🇧 Newport 8.8%🇪🇸 Segovia 8.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 18.4% 62 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Lobnya 18.7%🇬🇧 Darlington 18.6%🇷🇺 Pushkin 18.6%🇮🇳 Coimbatore 18.4%Cần Thơ🇵🇭 Nasugbu 18.3%🇬🇧 Blackburn 18.2%🇷🇺 Cherepovets 18.2%🇬🇧 King's Lynn 18.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.5% 64 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Huddersfield 93.6%🇷🇴 Iași 93.6%🇫🇮 Jyväskylä 93.6%🇬🇧 Canterbury 93.5%Cần Thơ🇺🇸 Huntsville 93.5%🇬🇧 Margate 93.5%🇲🇽 Monterrey 93.5%🇺🇸 Murfreesboro 93.5%

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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