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
🇷🇴 Romania · metro 61k · 217 venues mapped

Giurgiu

Where Giurgiu 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 58 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇷🇴 Bucharest 📖 62 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, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink217 places mapped
08:00–23:00
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands208 places mapped
07:00–21:30
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
100
umbrella days a year
24.5 m
of rain since 1981
2,743
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
627.5 km
to Kula
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:42
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.5 h
longest day of the year
17
public holidays, 2024
12,393
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureGiurgiu RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.8% 202 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Amersfoort 9.8%🇵🇹 Barreiro 9.8%🇷🇴 Bucharest 9.8%🇺🇸 Florence 9.8%Giurgiu🇺🇸 Houston 9.8%🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 9.8%🇵🇪 Lima 9.8%🇫🇷 Reims 9.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇹🇯 Dushanbe 91 h🇷🇺 Elektrostal 91 h🇺🇸 Evansville 91 h🇺🇸 Fort Wayne 91 hGiurgiu🇺🇸 Green Bay 91 h🇺🇸 Iowa City 91 h🇹🇷 Izmir 91 h🇮🇩 Jakarta 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 29.4% 188 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 29.6%🇺🇸 Washington 29.6%🇺🇸 Los Angeles 29.5%🇺🇸 Annapolis 29.4%Giurgiu🇯🇵 Hino 29.4%🇮🇳 Muvattupuzha 29.4%🇮🇳 Mysuru 29.4%🇦🇺 Point Cook 29.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇦🇱 Fier 0%🇺🇸 Flint 0%🇵🇱 Gdynia 0%🇷🇺 Gelendzhik 0%Giurgiu🇵🇱 Gniezno 0%🇧🇷 Goiânia 0%🇵🇱 Gorzów Wielkopolski 0%🇳🇮 Granada 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7.8% 153 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Auburn 7.8%🇵🇾 Ciudad del Este 7.8%🇺🇸 Dothan 7.8%🇺🇸 Florence 7.8%Giurgiu🇷🇺 Izhevsk 7.8%🇨🇦 Maple Ridge 7.8%🇹🇳 Tunis 7.8%🇺🇸 Arlington 7.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 85.7% 131 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Santa Barbara 86.1%🇧🇷 Sao Jose dos Campos 85.9%🇺🇸 Sioux Falls 85.9%🇦🇷 Cipolletti 85.7%Giurgiu🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 85.7%🇰🇬 Osh 85.7%🇺🇦 Kherson 85.5%🇷🇴 Brasov 85.4%

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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