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
🇵🇦 Panama · metro 127k · 392 venues mapped

David

Where David 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 133 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇷 Cartago 229 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇷 San José 📖 247 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 — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands821 places mapped
07:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
77%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
29%
open 24/7
Food & drink392 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
4%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
312
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
263
umbrella days a year
97.6 m
of rain since 1981
2,971
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
44.1 km
to Baru
66.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:17
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.6 h
longest day of the year
16
public holidays, 2024
16,789
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDavid RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.3% 257 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 4.4%🇵🇱 Bydgoszcz 4.3%🇫🇷 Chalon-sur-Saône 4.3%🇺🇦 Chernivtsi 4.3%David🇪🇸 Gandia 4.3%🇩🇪 Gerlingen 4.3%🇲🇽 Guadalupe 4.3%🇧🇪 Liège 4.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 72 h 133 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Bergamo 72 h🇸🇰 Bratislava 72 h🇨🇦 Calgary 72 h🇰🇷 Daegu 72 hDavid🇺🇸 Easton 72 h🇯🇵 Fukuoka 72 h🇵🇱 Gniezno 72 h🇸🇪 Gävle 72 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 21.7% 258 of 1,878 🇳🇿 Hamilton 21.9%🇮🇹 Trieste 21.9%🇺🇸 Naples 21.8%🇨🇴 Tunja 21.8%David🇪🇸 Gandia 21.7%🇮🇳 Kollam 21.7%🇭🇺 Miskolc 21.7%🇯🇵 Mito 21.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Częstochowa 0%🇺🇸 Dale City 0%🇸🇦 Dammam 0%🇺🇸 Davenport 0%David🇺🇸 Daytona Beach 0%🇭🇺 Debrecen 0%🇹🇷 Denizli 0%🇺🇦 Dnipro 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 0%🇪🇸 Cáceres 0%🇪🇸 Córdoba 0%🇨🇴 Cúcuta 0%David🇺🇸 Dearborn Heights 0%🇩🇪 Dessau 0%🇩🇪 Detmold 0%🇳🇱 Deventer 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 77.4% 199 of 1,704 🇮🇩 Surakarta 77.8%🇳🇱 Utrecht 77.8%🇨🇴 Yopal 77.8%🇭🇺 Kecskemét 77.5%David🇮🇹 Rome 77.4%🇲🇽 Guadalajara 77.3%🇧🇷 Jaraguá do Sul 77.3%🇮🇹 Florence 77.1%

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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