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
🇨🇦 Canada · metro 1.1M · 1,465 venues mapped

Edmonton

Where Edmonton 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 50 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Sherwood Park 11 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Calgary 📖 281 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,465 places mapped
10:00–22:00
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12%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands592 places mapped
07:00–23:00
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1%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
111h
open per week
25%
open 24/7
Services353 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
35%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
Culture272 places mapped
10:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
61%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
113
umbrella days a year
24 m
of rain since 1981
112
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
477.4 km
to Wells Gray-Clearwater
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:16
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
15,451
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureEdmonton RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.8% 182 of 1,878 🇸🇾 Aleppo 11.8%🇺🇸 Arlington 11.8%🇺🇸 Colorado Springs 11.8%🇬🇧 Doncaster 11.8%Edmonton🇺🇸 Evansville 11.8%🇧🇷 Florianópolis 11.8%🇸🇪 Gävle 11.8%🇺🇸 Lake Charles 11.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Dalian 84 h🇺🇸 Des Moines 84 h🇺🇦 Dnipro 84 h🇺🇦 Donetsk 84 hEdmonton🇲🇽 Ensenada 84 h🇨🇳 Fuyang 84 h🇺🇸 Gainesville 84 h🇱🇰 Galle 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 24.5% 232 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Zamora 24.7%🇬🇧 Maidstone 24.6%🇿🇦 Somerset West 24.6%🇨🇦 Windsor 24.6%Edmonton🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 24.5%🇵🇱 Tarnów 24.5%🇨🇳 Hangzhou 24.4%🇺🇸 Norristown 24.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.3% 371 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Brandon 1.3%🇭🇺 Budapest 1.3%🇺🇸 Columbus 1.3%🇿🇦 Diepsloot 1.3%Edmonton🇺🇸 Greeley 1.3%🇺🇸 Greenwood 1.3%🇪🇨 Guayaquil 1.3%🇺🇸 Harrisburg 1.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 8.3% 148 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Medellín 8.4%🇺🇸 Tuscaloosa 8.4%🇷🇺 Bataysk 8.3%🇧🇩 Chattogram 8.3%Edmonton🇮🇳 Kollam 8.3%🇭🇳 La Lima 8.3%🇨🇬 Pointe-Noire 8.3%🇷🇺 Pyatigorsk 8.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94.9% 50 of 1,704 🇹🇭 Ubon Ratchathani 95%🇱🇹 Vilnius 95%🇦🇺 Adelaide 94.9%🇬🇧 Bracknell 94.9%Edmonton🇬🇧 Glasgow 94.9%🇺🇦 Ivano-Frankivsk 94.9%🇺🇸 Louisville 94.9%🇬🇧 Oxford 94.9%

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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