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
🇫🇮 Finland · metro 1.0M · 4,104 venues mapped

Helsinki

Where Helsinki 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 66 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Helsinki in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city · in the atlas 🇪🇪 Tallinn 📖 82 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink4,104 places mapped
10:30–22:00
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16%
open past midnight
73%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,231 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
101h
open per week
10%
open 24/7
Culture963 places mapped
09:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
44%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
Services268 places mapped
08:30–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
46%
open on Sundays
64h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
143
umbrella days a year
33.4 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1588.7 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:13
winter sunset (solar approx.)
18.9 h
longest day of the year
15
public holidays, 2024
13,095
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureHelsinki RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 16.1% 139 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Le Havre 16.2%🇳🇴 Trondheim 16.2%🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 16.1%🇮🇹 Cremona 16.1%Helsinki🇲🇽 Hermosillo 16.1%🇪🇸 Lugo 16.1%🇬🇧 Maidenhead 16%🇨🇱 Santiago 16%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70.5 h 138 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Rzeszów 71 h🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 71 h🇬🇧 Stevenage 71 h🇸🇪 Örebro 70.8 hHelsinki🇵🇱 Koszalin 70.5 h🇮🇹 Rome 70.5 h🇨🇴 Armenia 70 h🇧🇷 Arujá 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.9% 383 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Arras 8.9%🇷🇴 Bucharest 8.9%🇨🇺 Ciego de Ávila 8.9%🇵🇱 Gdansk 8.9%Helsinki🇷🇺 Kirov 8.9%🇫🇷 Nancy 8.9%🇷🇺 Novorossiysk 8.9%🇧🇷 Arujá 8.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.5% 369 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Bussum 1.5%🇺🇦 Donetsk 1.5%🇺🇸 Escondido 1.5%🇭🇺 Gyor 1.5%Helsinki🇺🇸 Lawrence 1.5%🇺🇸 Medford 1.5%🇺🇸 Newport News 1.5%🇺🇸 Norcross 1.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.8% 203 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Auxerre 2.8%🇺🇸 Chapel Hill 2.8%🇮🇹 Civitanova Marche 2.8%🇺🇸 Denver 2.8%Helsinki🇯🇵 Kumagaya 2.8%🇨🇿 Liberec 2.8%🇲🇽 Mexico City 2.8%🇧🇦 Mostar 2.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.3% 66 of 1,704 🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 93.3%🇺🇸 Champaign 93.3%🇬🇧 Cheltenham 93.3%🇻🇳 Hanoi 93.3%Helsinki🇧🇾 Hrodna 93.3%🇺🇸 Lynchburg 93.3%🇺🇸 Palm Desert 93.3%🇺🇸 Redlands 93.3%

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