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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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
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Western Europe20
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North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇮🇹 Italy · metro 51k · 214 venues mapped

Cremona

Where Cremona 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 60 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Piacenza 27 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Milan 📖 75 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 & drink214 places mapped
10:45–23:15
0006121824
16%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
39%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands70 places mapped
08:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
70%
open on Sundays
82h
open per week
35%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
4
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
113
umbrella days a year
39.5 m
of rain since 1981
2,384
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
434.2 km
to Colli Albani
9.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.6 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,630
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCremona RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 16.1% 139 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Girona 16.2%🇫🇷 Le Havre 16.2%🇳🇴 Trondheim 16.2%🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 16.1%Cremona🇫🇮 Helsinki 16.1%🇲🇽 Hermosillo 16.1%🇪🇸 Lugo 16.1%🇬🇧 Maidenhead 16%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 48 h 233 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Vannes 48.5 h🇮🇹 Ferrara 48.2 h🇫🇷 Brest 48 h🇬🇧 Burnley 48 hCremona🇩🇪 Gera 48 h🇳🇱 Gouda 48 h🇲🇽 La Paz 48 h🇧🇪 Leuven 48 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 25.8% 220 of 1,878 🇲🇦 Bouskoura 25.9%🇨🇴 Chía 25.9%🇺🇸 Draper 25.9%🇺🇸 New York City 25.9%Cremona🇨🇳 Guangzhou 25.8%🇺🇸 Hilo 25.8%🇨🇦 Oshawa 25.8%🇬🇧 Belfast 25.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 38.7% 60 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Bordeaux 38.9%🇫🇷 Béziers 38.9%🇯🇵 Iida 38.9%🇫🇷 Lyon 38.8%Cremona🇮🇹 Perugia 38.5%🇮🇹 Brescia 38.4%🇩🇪 Kehl 38.3%🇫🇷 Chartres 38.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.2% 199 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Spring Valley 3.3%🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 3.3%🇬🇷 Chania 3.2%🇬🇧 Chester-le-Street 3.2%Cremona🇺🇸 Lake in the Hills 3.2%🇺🇸 Lincoln 3.2%🇺🇸 Lowell 3.2%🇺🇦 Lutsk 3.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 70% 253 of 1,704 🇵🇱 Świdnica 70.3%🇫🇷 Agen 70.2%🇭🇺 Veszprém 70.2%🇦🇷 Posadas 70.1%Cremona🇮🇹 Milan 70%🇫🇷 Reims 69.9%🇫🇷 Annecy 69.7%🇵🇹 Braga 69.6%

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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