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
🇲🇾 Malaysia · metro 1.7M · 4,369 venues mapped

Johor Bahru

Where Johor Bahru 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 34 of 1,704.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇸🇬 Singapore 📖 22 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Johor Bahru 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 & drink4,369 places mapped
09:30–22:00
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7%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
10%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,673 places mapped
07:00–23:00
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0%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
43%
open 24/7
Culture112 places mapped
10:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
Services91 places mapped
09:30–18:30
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6%
open past midnight
44%
open on Sundays
51h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
365
muggy days a year
276
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
314
umbrella days a year
132.5 m
of rain since 1981
4,835
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
418.8 km
to Marapi
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
19:05
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.2 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
3,929
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureJohor Bahru RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7% 230 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Canterbury 7%🇺🇸 Chester 7%🇺🇸 Cheyenne 7%🇦🇺 Gold Coast 7%Johor Bahru🇬🇧 Kidderminster 7%🇮🇳 Kozhikode 7%🇺🇦 Lviv 7%🇸🇪 Malmo 7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Gresik 77 h🇲🇽 Guadalupe 77 h🇭🇰 Hong Kong 77 h🇺🇸 Johnson City 77 hJohor Bahru🇨🇦 Kamloops 77 h🇰🇭 Kampot 77 h🇯🇵 Kisarazu 77 h🇯🇵 Kishiwada 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 16.6% 306 of 1,878 🇸🇻 Sonsonate 16.7%🇯🇵 Takaoka 16.7%🇨🇦 Vancouver 16.7%🇮🇳 Varanasi 16.7%Johor Bahru🇬🇧 Leicester 16.6%🇨🇾 Larnaca 16.5%🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 16.5%🇪🇸 Ferrol 16.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.8% 346 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Tallahassee 3.9%🇺🇸 Dunwoody 3.8%🇬🇧 Edinburgh 3.8%🇺🇸 Greensboro 3.8%Johor Bahru🇬🇦 Libreville 3.8%🇸🇪 Norrköping 3.8%🇺🇸 Salt Lake City 3.8%🇺🇸 Springfield 3.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10.3% 128 of 1,878 🇻🇳 Đà Nẵng 10.4%🇹🇷 Alanya 10.3%🇮🇹 Brindisi 10.3%🇺🇸 Chicago Heights 10.3%Johor Bahru🇺🇸 Jonesboro 10.3%🇺🇸 Lakeland 10.3%🇮🇳 Mangaluru 10.3%🇱🇦 Pakse 10.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.5% 34 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Medford 96.6%🇬🇧 Peterborough 96.6%🇺🇸 Troy 96.6%🇹🇷 Antalya 96.5%Johor Bahru🇺🇸 Manassas Park 96.5%🇬🇧 Sunderland 96.5%🇺🇸 Akron 96.4%🇬🇧 Ashford 96.4%

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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