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
🇮🇳 India · metro 9.5M · 2,212 venues mapped

Hyderabad

Where Hyderabad 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 31 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 248 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 2,174 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jan, Feb, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink2,212 places mapped
10:00–23:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,226 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
142
muggy days a year
45
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
115
umbrella days a year
38.4 m
of rain since 1981
9,949
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1749.2 km
to Barren Island
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:47
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.2 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
6,781
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureHyderabad RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.6% 224 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Wettingen 7.7%🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 7.7%🇩🇿 Zeralda 7.7%🇮🇹 Cagliari 7.6%Hyderabad🇵🇹 Lisbon 7.6%🇮🇹 Pavia 7.6%🇬🇧 Sheffield 7.6%🇬🇧 Slough 7.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Holland 84 h🇧🇾 Hrodna 84 h🇵🇪 Huaraz 84 h🇺🇸 Huntsville 84 hHyderabad🇻🇳 Hội An 84 h🇷🇴 Iași 84 h🇺🇸 Idaho Falls 84 h🇮🇳 Indore 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 15.2% 320 of 1,878 🇨🇿 Liberec 15.3%🇵🇹 Almada 15.2%🇨🇭 Bern 15.2%🇬🇧 East Kilbride 15.2%Hyderabad🇨🇦 London 15.2%🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 15.2%🇪🇸 A Coruña 15.1%🇸🇦 Riyadh 15.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.3% 341 of 1,878 🇨🇱 Valdivia 4.4%🇺🇸 Anchorage 4.3%🇹🇭 Chon Buri 4.3%🇲🇽 Guadalajara 4.3%Hyderabad🇬🇧 Lincoln 4.3%🇧🇷 Maceió 4.3%🇺🇸 Manhattan 4.3%🇻🇳 Phan Thiết 4.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.7% 174 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Anzio 5.7%🇺🇸 Conway 5.7%🇺🇸 Franklin 5.7%🇯🇵 Hirosaki 5.7%Hyderabad🇻🇳 Hội An 5.7%🇨🇦 London 5.7%🇪🇸 Murcia 5.7%🇮🇷 Rasht 5.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.8% 31 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Chester 96.8%🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 96.8%🇮🇶 Erbil 96.8%🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 96.8%Hyderabad🇺🇸 Laurel 96.8%🇺🇸 Mansfield 96.8%🇺🇸 New Orleans 96.8%🇺🇸 Oklahoma City 96.8%

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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