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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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
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East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇮🇳 India · metro 503k · 223 venues mapped

Kannur

Where Kannur places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is never close at all, where it ranks 35 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇳 Payyanur 30 km Nearest written profile 🇴🇲 Muscat 📖 2,214 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, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands395 places mapped
09:00–19:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
35%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
33%
take a midday break
9%
open 24/7
Food & drink223 places mapped
07:08–22:45
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
94h
open per week
15%
take a midday break
25%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
264
muggy days a year
10
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
215
umbrella days a year
125.4 m
of rain since 1981
6,050
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2011.8 km
to Barren Island
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:10
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.8 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
6,505
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKannur RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 0% 296 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Indore 0%🇮🇳 Irinjalakuda 0%🇧🇷 Joinville 0%🇧🇷 Jundiaí 0%Kannur🇹🇷 Konya 0%🇵🇱 Koszalin 0%🇮🇳 Koyilandy 0%🇪🇨 Latacunga 0%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 94.5 h 48 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Findlay 94.5 h🇪🇸 Huelva 94.5 h🇹🇷 Istanbul 94.5 h🇷🇺 Izhevsk 94.5 hKannur🇦🇴 Luanda 94.5 h🇺🇸 Morgantown 94.5 h🇴🇲 Muscat 94.5 h🇯🇵 Niigata 94.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 25% 227 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Corvallis 25.2%🇪🇸 Avilés 25%🇮🇹 Civitanova Marche 25%🇮🇹 Cosenza 25%Kannur🇯🇵 Kumagaya 25%🇮🇹 Lecco 25%🇷🇺 Nalchik 25%🇳🇨 Nouméa 25%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 15% 244 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Cali 15.2%🇩🇪 Leipzig 15.2%🇬🇧 Cheltenham 15.1%🇦🇹 Innsbruck 15%Kannur🇯🇵 Tanabe 15%🇬🇧 Hinckley 14.9%🇩🇪 Wuppertal 14.9%🇬🇧 Carlisle 14.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 25% 35 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Jakarta 25.4%🇮🇳 Agra 25%🇬🇧 Cannock 25%🇹🇷 Gölcük 25%Kannur🇵🇰 Lahore 25%🇭🇰 Tai Po 25%🇮🇶 Erbil 24.7%🇨🇳 Guangzhou 23.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 34.9% 426 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Santander 36%🇸🇮 Maribor 35.9%🇪🇸 Salamanca 35.9%🇪🇸 Vigo 35.3%Kannur🇪🇸 León 34.9%🇪🇸 Málaga 34.7%🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 34.7%🇨🇭 Biel/Bienne 34.6%

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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