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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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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
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 198k · 2,926 venues mapped

Grays

Where Grays 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 24 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Basildon 14 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 31 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit 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 & drink2,926 places mapped
11:00–22:30
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5%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,222 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Culture513 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
14%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Services393 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
31%
open on Sundays
51h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
136
umbrella days a year
30.6 m
of rain since 1981
7
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
480.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:52
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.6 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,447
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureGrays RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.9% 251 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Brasilia 4.9%🇬🇧 Cambridge 4.9%🇺🇸 Davenport 4.9%🇩🇪 Freilassing 4.9%Grays🇵🇱 Krakow 4.9%🇺🇸 Lancaster 4.9%🇰🇪 Nairobi 4.9%🇺🇸 Puyallup 4.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 73 h 129 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Ibiza 73.2 h🇺🇸 Anchorage 73 h🇺🇸 Asheville 73 h🇨🇦 Fredericton 73 hGrays🇵🇱 Katowice 73 h🇺🇸 Lancaster 73 h🇨🇿 Olomouc 73 h🇬🇧 Peterborough 73 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 19.9% 274 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Tarlac City 20%🇧🇪 Tournai 20%🇪🇸 Valdemoro 20%🇨🇳 Wuhan 20%Grays🇨🇳 Jiangshan 19.8%🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 19.8%🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 19.8%🇺🇸 Williamsburg 19.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.6% 368 of 1,878 🇲🇦 Casablanca 1.6%🇺🇸 Cinco Ranch 1.6%🇺🇸 Denver 1.6%🇯🇵 Fuji 1.6%Grays🇨🇿 Hradec Králové 1.6%🇿🇦 Johannesburg 1.6%🇮🇪 Limerick 1.6%🇺🇸 Pittsburgh 1.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.3% 198 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Cartagena 3.3%🇳🇿 Christchurch 3.3%🇺🇸 Davenport 3.3%🇬🇧 Elland 3.3%Grays🇺🇸 Harrisburg 3.3%🇮🇹 Imola 3.3%🇺🇦 Ivano-Frankivsk 3.3%🇪🇸 Marbella 3.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.5% 24 of 1,704 🇹🇷 Yalova 97.6%🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 97.6%🇺🇸 Columbus 97.5%🇿🇦 Diepsloot 97.5%Grays🇺🇸 Harrisburg 97.5%🇺🇸 Hartford 97.5%🇳🇵 Kathmandu 97.5%🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 97.5%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities