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
🇪🇨 Ecuador · metro 506k · 1,718 venues mapped

Cuenca

Where Cuenca 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 167 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇨 Guayaquil 126 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇴 Medellín 📖 1,085 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Cuenca 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 & drink1,718 places mapped
09:30–21:00
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
62%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
Shops & errands745 places mapped
08:15–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
76h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Services513 places mapped
08:30–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
49%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
Culture107 places mapped
09:00–17:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
47%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week
7%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
227
umbrella days a year
45.6 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
122.9 km
to Sangay
20.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:16
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.3 h
longest day of the year
16
public holidays, 2024
15,835
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCuenca RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.9% 241 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Williamsburg 6%🇯🇵 Aomori 5.9%🇮🇹 Aosta 5.9%🇬🇧 Brighton 5.9%Cuenca🇺🇸 Edmond 5.9%🇺🇸 Honolulu 5.9%🇺🇸 Kenosha 5.9%🇲🇽 La Paz 5.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 63 h🇲🇽 Cholula 63 h🇳🇿 Christchurch 63 h🇮🇪 Cork 63 hCuenca🇬🇧 Edinburgh 63 h🇯🇵 Fukuyama 63 h🇮🇪 Galway 63 h🇯🇵 Gamagori 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.3% 369 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Fujieda 10.4%🇦🇷 Mendoza 10.4%🇧🇷 Boa Vista 10.3%🇫🇷 Bourges 10.3%Cuenca🇬🇧 Hastings 10.3%🇸🇪 Norrköping 10.3%🇦🇷 San Juan 10.3%🇬🇧 Sheffield 10.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.9% 335 of 1,878 🇵🇪 Huancayo 5%🇬🇧 Perth 5%🇨🇳 Zhaoqing 5%🇺🇸 Bend 4.9%Cuenca🇧🇷 Cuiabá 4.9%🇺🇸 Dothan 4.9%🇺🇸 Logan 4.9%🇺🇸 Raleigh 4.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.2% 209 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Basel 2.2%🇿🇦 Centurion 2.2%🇮🇹 Chieti 2.2%🇹🇭 Chon Buri 2.2%Cuenca🇬🇧 Derby 2.2%🇺🇸 Detroit 2.2%🇬🇧 Dundee 2.2%🇺🇸 Grand Junction 2.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 75.3% 213 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Pavia 75.4%🇳🇱 Purmerend 75.4%🇭🇷 Split 75.4%🇫🇷 Béziers 75.3%Cuenca🇧🇷 Blumenau 75.2%🇪🇹 Addis Ababa 75%🇧🇷 Boa Vista 75%🇮🇹 Genoa 75%

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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