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
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 437k · 671 venues mapped

Coventry

Where Coventry 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 95 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Warwick 15 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 138 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink671 places mapped
08:45–22:45
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3%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
76h
open per week
7%
open 24/7
Shops & errands317 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Services129 places mapped
08:52–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
48%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
150
umbrella days a year
33.9 m
of rain since 1981
11
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
632 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:55
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.8 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,577
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCoventry RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.4% 266 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Bridgeport 3.4%🇮🇳 Chennai 3.4%🇺🇦 Cherkasy 3.4%🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 3.4%Coventry🇵🇱 Częstochowa 3.4%🇺🇸 Jonesboro 3.4%🇱🇹 Kaunas 3.4%🇸🇰 Košice 3.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 75.7 h 117 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Tarnów 76 h🇳🇦 Windhoek 76 h🇨🇦 Winnipeg 76 h🇰🇷 Seogwipo 75.8 hCoventry🇬🇧 Bracknell 75.5 h🇮🇱 Haifa 75.5 h🇨🇦 Kitchener 75.5 h🇹🇭 Chon Buri 75.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 36.2% 127 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Bridgeport 36.4%🇰🇭 Phnom Penh 36.4%🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 36.3%🇺🇸 Dallas 36.3%Coventry🇮🇹 Asti 36.1%🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 36.1%🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 36.1%🇺🇸 Birmingham 36%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.4% 350 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Roosendaal 3.5%🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs 3.5%🇺🇸 Trenton 3.5%🇵🇭 Agoo 3.4%Coventry🇺🇸 New Orleans 3.4%🇻🇳 Nha Trang 3.4%🇱🇦 Pakse 3.4%🇧🇷 Teresina 3.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.9% 162 of 1,878 🇰🇪 Ngong 7%🇮🇹 San Giuseppe Vesuviano 7%🇯🇵 Sapporo 7%🇧🇷 Boa Vista 6.9%Coventry🇵🇱 Częstochowa 6.9%🇹🇷 Eskisehir 6.9%🇮🇹 Fano 6.9%🇧🇾 Minsk 6.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 90.2% 95 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Corvallis 90.3%🇺🇸 Harrisonburg 90.3%🇬🇧 Norwich 90.3%🇧🇷 Uberlândia 90.3%Coventry🇬🇧 Gloucester 90.2%🇬🇧 Littlehampton 90.2%🇸🇪 Malmo 90.2%🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen 90.2%

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