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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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇮🇳 India · metro 2.4M · 323 venues mapped

Coimbatore

Where Coimbatore places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 23 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇮🇳 Irinjalakuda 111 km Nearest written profile 🇴🇲 Muscat 📖 2,411 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, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink323 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
88h
open per week
18%
open 24/7
Shops & errands246 places mapped
06:30–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
102h
open per week
7%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
220
muggy days a year
2
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
193
umbrella days a year
51.6 m
of rain since 1981
7,009
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1844.8 km
to Barren Island
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:05
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.8 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
6,319
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCoimbatore RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 0% 296 of 1,878 🇧🇩 Chattogram 0%🇹🇭 Chiang Rai 0%🇹🇭 Chon Buri 0%🇰🇷 Chuncheon 0%Coimbatore🇬🇧 Coleraine 0%🇲🇽 Cuernavaca 0%🇧🇷 Cuiabá 0%🇨🇴 Duitama 0%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 87.5 h 72 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Tijuana 88 h🇷🇺 Vladivostok 88 h🇺🇸 Worcester 88 h🇺🇸 Allen 87.5 hCoimbatore🇷🇴 Constanța 87.5 h🇨🇳 Hangzhou 87.5 h🇮🇳 Jaipur 87.5 h🇯🇵 Kagoshima 87.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.4% 288 of 1,878 🇮🇶 Kirkuk 18.6%🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 18.6%🇮🇶 Al Hillah 18.5%🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 18.5%Coimbatore🇮🇹 Florence 18.4%🇵🇹 Funchal 18.4%🇺🇬 Kampala 18.4%🇬🇧 Keighley 18.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Chía 0%🇦🇷 Cipolletti 0%🇲🇽 Ciudad Juárez 0%🇺🇸 Coeur d'Alene 0%Coimbatore🇸🇻 Cojutepeque 0%🇬🇧 Coleraine 0%🇬🇷 Corfu 0%🇧🇯 Cotonou 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 18.4% 62 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Kemerovo 18.9%🇷🇺 Lobnya 18.7%🇬🇧 Darlington 18.6%🇷🇺 Pushkin 18.6%Coimbatore🇻🇳 Cần Thơ 18.4%🇵🇭 Nasugbu 18.3%🇬🇧 Blackburn 18.2%🇷🇺 Cherepovets 18.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.6% 23 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Lynn 97.7%🇷🇺 Makhachkala 97.7%🇹🇷 Ankara 97.6%🇷🇺 Bataysk 97.6%Coimbatore🇬🇧 Liverpool 97.6%🇺🇸 Mission Viejo 97.6%🇯🇵 Osaka 97.6%🇹🇷 Yalova 97.6%

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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