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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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 152k · 1,121 venues mapped

Como

Where Como 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 43 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Varese 20 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Milan 📖 39 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Como does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,121 places mapped
11:30–23:00
0006121824
18%
open past midnight
78%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
41%
take a midday break
Shops & errands287 places mapped
08:00–20:30
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
79%
open on Sundays
81h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
152
umbrella days a year
56.2 m
of rain since 1981
2
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
473 km
to Chaine des Puys
1.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:42
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.7 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,719
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureComo RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 18.2% 119 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Martinez 18.5%🇲🇰 Skopje 18.5%🇫🇷 Rennes 18.3%🇵🇾 Asuncion 18.2%Como🇵🇸 Nablus 18.2%🇪🇨 Otavalo 18.2%🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 18.2%🇺🇸 Champaign 18.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57 h 193 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Évora 57.5 h🇪🇸 Castelldefels 57.2 h🇩🇪 Stuttgart 57.2 h🇫🇷 Avignon 57 hComo🇬🇧 Darlington 57 h🇧🇷 Fortaleza 57 h🇩🇪 Fulda 57 h🇩🇪 Hagen 57 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 19.3% 280 of 1,878 🇩🇿 Algiers 19.4%🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 19.4%🇸🇰 Trnava 19.4%🇮🇳 Bengaluru 19.3%Como🇮🇩 Denpasar 19.3%🇨🇴 Medellín 19.3%🇮🇹 Verona 19.3%🇨🇦 Abbotsford 19.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 41.2% 43 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Auxerre 41.7%🇧🇪 Kortrijk 41.6%🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 41.4%🇮🇹 Pordenone 41.3%Como🇫🇷 Lorient 41.1%🇫🇷 Agde 40.9%🇫🇷 Albi 40.9%🇨🇭 Neuchâtel 40.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.6% 215 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Vladikavkaz 1.7%🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 1.7%🇬🇧 Bournemouth 1.6%🇺🇸 Brockton 1.6%Como🇩🇪 Halle (Saale) 1.6%🇫🇮 Jyväskylä 1.6%🇮🇪 Limerick 1.6%🇺🇸 Palmdale 1.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 79.4% 185 of 1,704 🇹🇷 Istanbul 79.7%🇮🇹 Salerno 79.6%🇦🇷 La Plata 79.5%🇳🇱 Venlo 79.5%Como🇧🇷 Jundiaí 79.4%🇦🇷 Mendoza 79.4%🇲🇽 Toluca 79.4%🇫🇷 Cannes 79.3%

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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