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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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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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇸🇩 Sudan · metro 7.1M · 1,190 venues mapped

Khartoum

Where Khartoum 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇸🇦 Jeddah 963 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 📖 1,852 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 & errands1,675 places mapped
07:00–23:30
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
112h
open per week
29%
open 24/7
Food & drink1,190 places mapped
09:00–24:00
0006121824
42%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
102h
open per week
10%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
45
muggy days a year
102
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
40
umbrella days a year
7.7 m
of rain since 1981
15,418
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
309.8 km
to Bayuda Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:24
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.1 h
longest day of the year
15
public holidays, 2024
10,307
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKhartoum RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 42.1% 12 of 1,878 🇬🇷 Volos 45.5%🇷🇸 Kragujevac 44.6%🇦🇷 Resistencia 43.3%🇮🇪 Waterford 42.3%Khartoum🇪🇸 Segovia 41.2%🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 41.2%🇮🇱 Jerusalem 40%🇱🇧 Sidon 40%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 101.5 h 27 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Gölcük 101.5 h🇹🇳 Hammamet 101.5 h🇻🇳 Hanoi 101.5 h🇬🇷 Ioannina 101.5 hKhartoum🇻🇳 Ninh Bình 101.5 h🇺🇸 Phoenix 101.5 h🇭🇷 Split 101.5 h🇺🇸 Smyrna 101 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 15.8% 314 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Rangkasbitung 15.9%🇮🇩 Banjarmasin 15.8%🇬🇧 Exeter 15.8%🇮🇳 Irinjalakuda 15.8%Khartoum🇮🇹 Lecce 15.8%🇵🇹 Lisbon 15.8%🇮🇩 Makassar 15.8%🇸🇰 Poprad 15.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Katowice 0%🇷🇺 Kemerovo 0%🇺🇸 Kenosha 0%🇺🇸 Key West 0%Khartoum🇺🇦 Kherson 0%🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 0%🇵🇱 Kielce 0%🇮🇪 Kilkenny 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10.5% 126 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Banjarmasin 10.5%🇨🇳 Chengdu 10.5%🇺🇸 Daytona Beach 10.5%🇮🇳 Irinjalakuda 10.5%Khartoum🇬🇧 Kidderminster 10.5%🇷🇺 Krasnoyarsk 10.5%🇬🇭 Kumasi 10.5%🇨🇴 Manizales 10.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇮🇶 Karbala 100%🇷🇺 Kemerovo 100%🇺🇸 Kennewick 100%🇺🇸 Kenosha 100%Khartoum🇺🇸 Killeen 100%🇮🇶 Kirkuk 100%🇯🇵 Kishiwada 100%🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 100%

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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