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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North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇺🇸 United States · metro 2.6M · 6,912 venues mapped

Dallas

Where Dallas 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 21 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Irving 14 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Austin 📖 293 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Dallas 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 & drink6,912 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
12%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
88h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Shops & errands2,487 places mapped
06:00–23:00
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
119h
open per week
27%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
84
muggy days a year
30
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
97
umbrella days a year
43.6 m
of rain since 1981
5,627
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
855 km
to Carrizozo
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:25
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.3 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
16,958
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDallas RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.7% 183 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Vercelli 11.8%🇰🇷 Wonju 11.8%🇪🇹 Addis Ababa 11.7%🇺🇸 Cleveland 11.7%Dallas🇳🇿 Hamilton 11.7%🇺🇸 Las Vegas 11.7%🇺🇸 Manchester 11.7%🇧🇷 Niterói 11.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 88.5 h 69 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg 89 h🇺🇸 Tacoma 89 h🇬🇷 Volos 89 h🇨🇦 Airdrie 88.5 hDallas🇷🇺 Kaluga 88.5 h🇺🇸 Santa Clarita 88.2 h🇺🇸 Kansas City 88 h🇺🇸 Myrtle Beach 88 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 36.3% 126 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Waco 36.5%🇺🇸 Bridgeport 36.4%🇰🇭 Phnom Penh 36.4%🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 36.3%Dallas🇬🇧 Coventry 36.2%🇮🇹 Asti 36.1%🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 36.1%🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 36.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.9% 365 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Chesterfield 1.9%🇹🇭 Chiang Rai 1.9%🇨🇺 Cienfuegos 1.9%🇺🇸 Cincinnati 1.9%Dallas🇺🇸 Durham 1.9%🇮🇩 Gresik 1.9%🇳🇱 Groningen 1.9%🇩🇪 Hennigsdorf 1.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.6% 175 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Scarborough 5.7%🇷🇺 Taganrog 5.7%🇪🇸 Almuñécar 5.6%🇬🇧 Basingstoke 5.6%Dallas🇮🇩 Denpasar 5.6%🇺🇸 Duncanville 5.6%🇦🇱 Elbasan 5.6%🇬🇧 Glasgow 5.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.8% 21 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Azov 97.8%🇷🇺 Barnaul 97.8%🇨🇳 Beijing 97.8%🇺🇸 Buffalo 97.8%Dallas🇺🇸 Detroit 97.8%🇹🇷 Fethiye 97.8%🇯🇵 Fukuoka 97.8%🇯🇵 Kisarazu 97.8%

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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