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.

Read the method →
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
🇳🇴 Norway · metro 52k · 219 venues mapped

Drammen

Where Drammen 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 160 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇳🇴 Oslo 📖 36 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Drammen 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 & drink219 places mapped
11:00–22:00
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
65h
open per week
Shops & errands142 places mapped
07:00–23:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
10%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
174
umbrella days a year
57.4 m
of rain since 1981
3
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1085.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:16
winter sunset (solar approx.)
18.8 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
13,891
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDrammen RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.2% 208 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Redditch 9.3%🇬🇧 Barry 9.2%🇬🇧 Birmingham 9.2%🇫🇷 Bourges 9.2%Drammen🇫🇮 Lahti 9.2%🇦🇹 Linz 9.2%🇺🇸 Lynn 9.2%🇯🇵 Nagoya 9.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 65 h 160 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Leeds 65.2 h🇬🇧 Bristol 65 h🇧🇷 Campina Grande 65 h🇩🇰 Copenhagen 65 hDrammen🇮🇪 Dublin 65 h🇩🇪 Hennigsdorf 65 h🇨🇿 Jihlava 65 h🇸🇪 Karlstad 65 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.1% 421 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Vladimir 5.2%🇳🇱 Zwolle 5.2%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 5.1%🇧🇷 Curitiba 5.1%Drammen🇩🇪 Heidelberg 5.1%🇩🇪 Kiel 5.1%🇫🇷 Lille 5.1%🇧🇪 Namur 5.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Daytona Beach 0%🇭🇺 Debrecen 0%🇹🇷 Denizli 0%🇺🇦 Dnipro 0%Drammen🇺🇦 Druzhkivka 0%🇨🇴 Duitama 0%🇬🇧 Dunfermline 0%🇬🇧 Durham 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1% 221 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Södertälje 1.1%🇮🇳 Bengaluru 1%🇻🇪 Caracas 1%🇺🇸 Corvallis 1%Drammen🇿🇦 Durban 1%🇪🇸 Girona 1%🇦🇺 Hobart 1%🇨🇿 Hradec Králové 1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 9.9% 549 of 1,704 🇬🇷 Corfu 11.1%🇩🇪 Dessau 10.4%🇩🇪 Hof 10.4%🇩🇪 Gera 10.2%Drammen🇧🇪 Tournai 9.5%🇩🇪 Straubing 9.4%🇩🇪 Chemnitz 9.2%🇩🇪 Zwickau 8.3%

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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