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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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇮🇳 India · metro 11.5M · 1,619 venues mapped

Chennai

Where Chennai 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 82 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇳 Puducherry 137 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 2,097 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,619 places mapped
09:00–22:30
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3%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
11%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands785 places mapped
08:30–21:45
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2%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
88h
open per week
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
311
muggy days a year
199
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
147
umbrella days a year
56.3 m
of rain since 1981
11,233
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1475.7 km
to Barren Island
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:48
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.9 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
6,280
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureChennai RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.4% 266 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Arles 3.5%🇳🇿 Auckland 3.5%🇩🇪 Bonn 3.4%🇺🇸 Bridgeport 3.4%Chennai🇺🇦 Cherkasy 3.4%🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 3.4%🇬🇧 Coventry 3.4%🇵🇱 Częstochowa 3.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Caserta 84 h🇵🇭 Cebu City 84 h🇷🇺 Cheboksary 84 h🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 84 hChennai🇰🇷 Cheongju-si 84 h🇺🇦 Cherkasy 84 h🇺🇦 Chernihiv 84 h🇨🇺 Cienfuegos 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 28.2% 198 of 1,878 🇹🇳 Tunis 28.4%🇪🇸 Albacete 28.3%🇺🇸 Honolulu 28.3%🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen 28.3%Chennai🇺🇸 Fresno 28.2%🇺🇸 Olympia 28.2%🇺🇸 Palm Desert 28.2%🇬🇧 Rugby 28.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 10.7% 282 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Chapel Hill 11%🇬🇧 Reading 11%🇩🇪 Bremen 10.9%🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 10.9%Chennai🇳🇿 Wellington 10.7%🇨🇳 Chengdu 10.5%🇨🇴 Manizales 10.5%🇯🇵 Misawa 10.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4% 191 of 1,878 🇱🇹 Šiauliai 4.1%🇳🇿 Auckland 4%🇺🇸 Austin 4%🇧🇷 Blumenau 4%Chennai🇰🇷 Gwangju 4%🇷🇺 Ivanovo 4%🇮🇱 Jerusalem 4%🇱🇹 Kaunas 4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 87.8% 115 of 1,704 🇲🇺 Port Louis 87.9%🇵🇹 Viseu 87.9%🇬🇧 Warrington 87.9%🇨🇦 Cambridge 87.8%Chennai🇬🇧 Elland 87.8%🇬🇧 Kidderminster 87.8%🇺🇸 Salem 87.8%🇬🇧 Dundee 87.7%

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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