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
🇦🇺 Australia · metro 279k · 1,202 venues mapped

Gold Coast

Where Gold Coast 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 52 of 1,704.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇦🇺 Brisbane 📖 71 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, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,202 places mapped
10:00–21:00
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7%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands469 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
7%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
43
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
129
umbrella days a year
55.8 m
of rain since 1981
2,156
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1401.8 km
to McBride Volcanic Province
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:58
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.9 h
longest day of the year
7
public holidays, 2024
3,627
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureGold Coast RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7% 230 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Boardman 7%🇬🇧 Canterbury 7%🇺🇸 Chester 7%🇺🇸 Cheyenne 7%Gold Coast🇲🇾 Johor Bahru 7%🇬🇧 Kidderminster 7%🇮🇳 Kozhikode 7%🇺🇦 Lviv 7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 59.5 h 183 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Brisbane 59.5 h🇨🇴 Cali 59.5 h🇬🇧 Falkirk 59.5 h🇮🇹 Genoa 59.5 hGold Coast🇳🇿 Hamilton 59.5 h🇦🇹 Lustenau 59.5 h🇦🇺 Newcastle 59.5 h🇯🇵 Otsu 59.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 35.3% 136 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Tulsa 35.5%🇺🇸 Denver 35.4%🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 35.3%🇺🇸 Columbus 35.3%Gold Coast🇺🇸 Missoula 35.2%🇿🇦 Pretoria 35.1%🇮🇹 Ancona 35%🇺🇸 Modesto 35%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 8.1% 303 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Harrogate 8.2%🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 8.2%🇨🇾 Limassol 8.2%🇬🇧 Bury St Edmunds 8.1%Gold Coast🇦🇺 Sydney 8.1%🇬🇧 Grimsby 8%🇦🇺 Perth 8%🇦🇺 Toowoomba 8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.8% 183 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Bentonville 4.8%🇺🇦 Druzhkivka 4.8%🇨🇦 Fredericton 4.8%🇯🇵 Fukuchiyama 4.8%Gold Coast🇵🇱 Kielce 4.8%🇺🇦 Kyiv 4.8%🇺🇸 Ocala 4.8%🇰🇿 Shymkent 4.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94.7% 52 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Wichita 94.8%🇺🇸 Bend 94.7%🇺🇸 College Station 94.7%🇸🇦 Dammam 94.7%Gold Coast🇨🇩 Kinshasa 94.7%🇺🇸 Little Elm 94.7%🇧🇾 Minsk 94.7%🇵🇸 Nablus 94.7%

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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