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 5.1M · 2,896 venues mapped

Kochi

Where Kochi places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 82 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇳 Muvattupuzha 35 km Nearest written profile 🇴🇲 Muscat 📖 2,427 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Kochi does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands3,374 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
4%
open past midnight
71%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
Food & drink2,896 places mapped
09:00–22:30
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
8%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
334
muggy days a year
246
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
235
umbrella days a year
115.8 m
of rain since 1981
7,371
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1937.2 km
to Barren Island
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:10
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.7 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
6,277
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKochi RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.2% 198 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Boise 10.2%🇺🇸 Detroit 10.2%🇳🇱 Groningen 10.2%🇯🇲 Kingston 10.2%Kochi🇮🇳 New Delhi 10.2%🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 10.2%🇺🇸 Redlands 10.2%🇺🇸 Reno 10.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 84 h🇷🇺 Kislovodsk 84 h🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 84 h🇱🇹 Klaipėda 84 hKochi🇯🇵 Kofu 84 h🇮🇳 Kolkata 84 h🇬🇷 Kos 84 h🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 12.9% 343 of 1,878 🇨🇿 Hradec Králové 13%🇷🇺 Lobnya 13%🇬🇧 Maidenhead 13%🇸🇰 Prievidza 13%Kochi🇫🇷 Le Mans 12.9%🇵🇭 Manila 12.9%🇷🇺 Yoshkar-Ola 12.9%🇯🇵 Fukushima 12.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.2% 372 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Bentonville 1.2%🇰🇷 Daegu 1.2%🇺🇸 Eugene 1.2%🇺🇸 Grand Rapids 1.2%Kochi🇰🇼 Kuwait City 1.2%🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 1.2%🇭🇺 Miskolc 1.2%🇺🇸 New Haven 1.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7.7% 154 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Echizen 7.7%🇪🇨 Guayaquil 7.7%🇯🇵 Isesaki 7.7%🇮🇷 Karaj 7.7%Kochi🇺🇸 Oxford 7.7%🇵🇹 Portimão 7.7%🇬🇧 Rugby 7.7%🇬🇧 Wigan 7.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 71% 243 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Busto Arsizio 71.2%🇮🇹 Treviso 71.2%🇭🇺 Pécs 71.1%🇵🇹 Évora 71.1%Kochi🇮🇹 Lucca 71%🇮🇹 Verona 70.9%🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 70.8%🇵🇱 Elbląg 70.8%

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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