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
🇮🇹 Italy · metro 22k · 267 venues mapped

Follonica

Where Follonica 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 49 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Siena 63 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Rome 📖 184 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, Jun, Jul, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink267 places mapped
12:30–22:30
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2%
open past midnight
71%
open on Sundays
32h
open per week
26%
take a midday break
Shops & errands63 places mapped
08:00–20:30
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10%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
87h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
15
muggy days a year
6
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
97
umbrella days a year
30.3 m
of rain since 1981
1,107
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
207.2 km
to Colli Albani
1
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:46
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,508
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureFollonica RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2% 280 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 2.1%🇳🇦 Windhoek 2.1%🇬🇧 Blackpool 2%🇷🇺 Elektrostal 2%Follonica🇩🇪 Fulda 2%🇩🇪 Jena 2%🇵🇱 Lodz 2%🇪🇨 Riobamba 2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 31.5 h 268 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Jaraguá do Sul 36 h🇬🇫 Cayenne 34 h🇯🇵 Misawa 33 h🇧🇪 Tournai 32.5 hFollonica🇧🇷 Sapiranga 30 h🇧🇷 São Luís 30 h🇪🇸 Elda 29.2 h🇯🇵 Matsue 27 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.1% 411 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Tver 6.2%🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 6.2%🇵🇱 Świdnica 6.2%🇷🇺 Elektrostal 6.1%Follonica🇩🇪 Kehl 6.1%🇧🇷 Sao Jose dos Campos 6.1%🇵🇱 Tychy 6.1%🇵🇱 Zielona Góra 6.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 26.5% 145 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Salta 27%🇯🇵 Kumamoto 26.8%🇩🇪 Bensheim 26.7%🇮🇹 Turin 26.7%Follonica🇪🇸 Granollers 26.5%🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 26.5%🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 26.4%🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 26.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Evansville 0%🇺🇸 Fall River 0%🇮🇹 Ferrara 0%🇪🇸 Ferrol 0%Follonica🇺🇸 Fort Wayne 0%🇩🇪 Freilassing 0%🇨🇿 Frýdek-Místek 0%🇪🇸 Fuengirola 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95% 49 of 1,704 🇨🇳 Nanjing 95.1%🇹🇼 Taichung 95.1%🇷🇴 Constanța 95%🇺🇸 Dayton 95%Follonica🇨🇦 Kelowna 95%🇮🇪 Kilkenny 95%🇮🇳 Mumbai 95%🇻🇳 Nha Trang 95%

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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