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
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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.
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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
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Western Europe20
LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇻🇳 Vietnam · metro 14.6M · 3,817 venues mapped

Ho Chi Minh City

Where Ho Chi Minh City 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 54 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Ho Chi Minh City in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇻🇳 Vũng Tàu 73 km Nearest written profile 🇻🇳 Đà Nẵng 📖 608 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink3,817 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
92h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
9%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,620 places mapped
06:30–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
33%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
315
muggy days a year
80
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
184
umbrella days a year
60.6 m
of rain since 1981
12,293
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
271 km
to Cendres, Ile des
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:37
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.8 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
4,857
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureHo Chi Minh City RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.5% 215 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Camberley 8.5%🇺🇸 Chicago Heights 8.5%🇲🇽 Cholula 8.5%🇹🇯 Dushanbe 8.5%Ho Chi Minh City🇷🇴 Iași 8.5%🇧🇷 Jaraguá do Sul 8.5%🇮🇳 Kolkata 8.5%🇯🇵 Koriyama 8.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 92.5 h 54 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Makassar 92.8 h🇮🇳 Udaipur 92.8 h🇺🇸 Ames 92.5 h🇬🇧 Cannock 92.5 hHo Chi Minh City🇺🇸 Newport News 92.2 h🇺🇸 Bridgeport 92 h🇺🇸 Kalamazoo 92 h🇺🇸 Sherwood 92 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 36.1% 128 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 36.3%🇺🇸 Dallas 36.3%🇬🇧 Coventry 36.2%🇮🇹 Asti 36.1%Ho Chi Minh City🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 36.1%🇺🇸 Birmingham 36%🇦🇺 Toowoomba 36%🇺🇸 Asbury Park 35.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 5.4% 330 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Bournemouth 5.5%🇺🇸 Bridgeport 5.5%🇬🇧 London 5.5%🇺🇸 Santa Fe 5.5%Ho Chi Minh City🇷🇺 Kazan 5.4%🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo 5.4%🇭🇰 Sha Tin 5.4%🇺🇸 Spartanburg 5.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 9.3% 138 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Penza 9.4%🇦🇺 Wollongong 9.4%🇷🇺 Yeysk 9.4%🇯🇵 Akita 9.3%Ho Chi Minh City🇲🇦 Rabat 9.3%🇬🇧 Southport 9.3%🇺🇸 Cape Coral 9.2%🇳🇵 Kathmandu 9.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94% 59 of 1,704 🇳🇮 Tipitapa 94.1%🇺🇸 Charlottesville 94%🇺🇸 Fort Collins 94%🇺🇸 Greensboro 94%Ho Chi Minh City🇨🇦 Hamilton 93.9%🇬🇧 High Wycombe 93.9%🇺🇸 Iowa City 93.9%🇸🇦 Jeddah 93.9%

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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