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
🇯🇵 Japan · metro 1.2M · 2,035 venues mapped

Hiroshima

Where Hiroshima 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 27 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇯🇵 Matsuyama 69 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Fukuoka 📖 207 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Hiroshima does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink2,035 places mapped
11:00–22:00
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,253 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
70%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
80
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
131
umbrella days a year
69.1 m
of rain since 1981
1,226
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
2
volcanoes within 100 km
83.9 km
to Sanbesan
9.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:04
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.5 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
7,579
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureHiroshima RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.1% 239 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Wollongong 6.2%🇩🇪 Aachen 6.1%🇬🇧 Chester 6.1%🇺🇸 Draper 6.1%Hiroshima🇷🇺 Odintsovo 6.1%🇹🇭 Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya 6.1%🇧🇷 Sao Jose dos Campos 6.1%🇩🇪 Trier 6.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Gloucester 70 h🇵🇱 Gorzów Wielkopolski 70 h🇭🇺 Gyor 70 h🇨🇦 Halifax 70 hHiroshima🇺🇸 Honolulu 70 h🇹🇼 Hsinchu 70 h🇰🇷 Jeonju 70 h🇫🇮 Jyväskylä 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.8% 354 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Tokushima 12%🇩🇪 Rostock 11.9%🇵🇹 Braga 11.8%🇵🇾 Ciudad del Este 11.8%Hiroshima🇬🇧 Inverness 11.8%🇬🇷 Ioannina 11.8%🇬🇧 Mansfield 11.8%🇫🇷 Marignane 11.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 14.5% 249 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Salzburg 14.8%🇪🇸 Torrevieja 14.7%🇵🇾 Asuncion 14.6%🇩🇪 Jena 14.6%Hiroshima🇩🇪 Kassel 14.5%🇯🇵 Numazu 14.5%🇩🇪 Aachen 14.4%🇧🇷 Aracaju 14.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.7% 194 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Azov 3.7%🇬🇧 Bridgend 3.7%🇰🇷 Cheongju-si 3.7%🇺🇸 Fresno 3.7%Hiroshima🇵🇪 Lima 3.7%🇲🇴 Macau 3.7%🇺🇸 Mission Viejo 3.7%🇺🇸 Modesto 3.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.2% 27 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Serpukhov 97.3%🇮🇩 Surabaya 97.3%🇺🇸 Atlanta 97.2%🇺🇸 Boston 97.2%Hiroshima🇺🇸 Jacksonville 97.2%🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 97.2%🇺🇸 Norfolk 97.2%🇯🇵 Okayama 97.2%

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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