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
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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
🇸🇳 Senegal · metro 4.0M · 1,048 venues mapped

Dakar

Where Dakar 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 67 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇳 Coyah 709 km Nearest written profile 🇵🇹 Funchal 📖 1,999 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, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands2,284 places mapped
05:45–24:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
126h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
49%
open 24/7
Food & drink1,048 places mapped
10:00–23:38
0006121824
20%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
16%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
204
muggy days a year
157
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
88
umbrella days a year
23.9 m
of rain since 1981
257
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
742.9 km
to Fogo
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:46
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
14,922
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDakar RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 20.5% 102 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Flint 20.8%🇸🇪 Västerås 20.8%🇨🇱 Rancagua 20.6%🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 20.5%Dakar🇺🇸 Great Falls 20.5%🇷🇸 Niš 20.5%🇫🇮 Oulu 20.5%🇺🇸 North Charleston 20.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Conway 84 h🇬🇷 Corfu 84 h🇷🇴 Craiova 84 h🇰🇷 Daejeon 84 hDakar🇨🇳 Dalian 84 h🇺🇸 Des Moines 84 h🇺🇦 Dnipro 84 h🇺🇦 Donetsk 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.8% 404 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Barnaul 6.8%🇰🇷 Busan 6.8%🇫🇷 Cannes 6.8%🇨🇷 Cartago 6.8%Dakar🇬🇧 Darlington 6.8%🇫🇷 Grenoble 6.8%🇩🇪 Kleve 6.8%🇯🇵 Otsu 6.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.1% 373 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Baltimore 1.1%🇺🇸 Birmingham 1.1%🇰🇬 Bishkek 1.1%🇬🇷 Chania 1.1%Dakar🇮🇩 Denpasar 1.1%🇵🇱 Gdansk 1.1%🇺🇸 Kennewick 1.1%🇧🇾 Minsk 1.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 15.9% 80 of 1,878 🇱🇧 Beirut 16.2%🇷🇺 Podolsk 16%🇬🇧 Scunthorpe 16%🇯🇵 Tokushima 16%Dakar🇨🇴 Riohacha 15.9%🇹🇷 Yalova 15.9%🇷🇴 Târgoviște 15.8%🇨🇴 Yopal 15.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.2% 67 of 1,704 🇮🇷 Yazd 93.3%🇷🇺 Abakan 93.2%🇺🇸 Baltimore 93.2%🇩🇰 Copenhagen 93.2%Dakar🇸🇪 Helsingborg 93.2%🇬🇧 Ipswich 93.2%🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 93.2%🇬🇧 Lancaster 93.2%

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.

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