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
🇫🇮 Finland · metro 57k · 287 venues mapped

Jyväskylä

Where Jyväskylä 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 63 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇫🇮 Tampere 131 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇮 Helsinki 📖 234 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Jyväskylä 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 & drink287 places mapped
10:30–21:15
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18%
open past midnight
79%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
Shops & errands148 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
100h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Culture78 places mapped
10:30–19:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
60%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
168
umbrella days a year
37.8 m
of rain since 1981
6
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1750.6 km
to Jan Mayen
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
14:47
winter sunset (solar approx.)
19.9 h
longest day of the year
15
public holidays, 2024
13,120
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureJyväskylä RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 18.1% 120 of 1,878 🇵🇸 Nablus 18.2%🇪🇨 Otavalo 18.2%🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 18.2%🇺🇸 Champaign 18.1%Jyväskylä🇨🇦 London 18.1%🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 18.1%🇺🇸 Des Moines 18%🇪🇸 Salamanca 18%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Hiroshima 70 h🇺🇸 Honolulu 70 h🇹🇼 Hsinchu 70 h🇰🇷 Jeonju 70 hJyväskylä🇹🇭 Ko Samui 70 h🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 70 h🇵🇱 Krakow 70 h🇲🇾 Kuching 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.3% 409 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Omsk 6.4%🇩🇪 Regensburg 6.4%🇯🇵 Toyohashi 6.4%🇩🇪 Bremerhaven 6.3%Jyväskylä🇩🇪 Tübingen 6.3%🇰🇿 Aktobe 6.2%🇬🇳 Coyah 6.2%🇮🇱 Eilat 6.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇨🇿 Jihlava 0%🇨🇳 Jinan 0%🇺🇸 Joliet 0%🇧🇷 Jundiaí 0%Jyväskylä🇺🇸 Kalamazoo 0%🇵🇰 Karachi 0%🇮🇷 Karaj 0%🇮🇶 Karbala 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.6% 215 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Bournemouth 1.6%🇺🇸 Brockton 1.6%🇮🇹 Como 1.6%🇩🇪 Halle (Saale) 1.6%Jyväskylä🇮🇪 Limerick 1.6%🇺🇸 Palmdale 1.6%🇲🇺 Port Louis 1.6%🇬🇧 Portsmouth 1.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.6% 63 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Richmond 93.7%🇺🇸 Boise 93.6%🇬🇧 Huddersfield 93.6%🇷🇴 Iași 93.6%Jyväskylä🇬🇧 Canterbury 93.5%🇻🇳 Cần Thơ 93.5%🇺🇸 Huntsville 93.5%🇬🇧 Margate 93.5%

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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