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
🇯🇵 Japan · metro 356k · 551 venues mapped

Kofu

Where Kofu 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 15 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇯🇵 Fujikawaguchiko 23 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Tokyo 📖 102 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Kofu 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 & drink551 places mapped
10:38–23:00
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12%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
22%
open 24/7
Shops & errands416 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
57%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
53
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
144
umbrella days a year
69.4 m
of rain since 1981
646
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
3
volcanoes within 100 km
37 km
to Fujisan
34.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:36
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.6 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
7,883
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKofu RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.9% 181 of 1,878 🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch 11.9%🇺🇸 Baton Rouge 11.9%🇫🇷 Bordeaux 11.9%🇺🇸 Chico 11.9%Kofu🇸🇮 Maribor 11.9%🇺🇸 Memphis 11.9%🇺🇸 New Haven 11.9%🇫🇷 Orléans 11.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Kislovodsk 84 h🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 84 h🇱🇹 Klaipėda 84 h🇮🇳 Kochi 84 hKofu🇮🇳 Kolkata 84 h🇬🇷 Kos 84 h🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 84 h🇮🇳 Kottayam 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9% 382 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Yalova 9.1%🇷🇺 Zelenograd 9.1%🇬🇧 Crewe 9%🇪🇸 Gijón 9%Kofu🇪🇸 Valencia 9%🇵🇱 Warsaw 9%🇫🇷 Arras 8.9%🇷🇴 Bucharest 8.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 9% 294 of 1,878 🇬🇧 King's Lynn 9.1%🇺🇸 Portland 9.1%🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 9.1%🇬🇷 Volos 9.1%Kofu🇲🇻 Malé 9%🇧🇷 Nova Lima 9%🇯🇵 Hachioji 8.9%🇲🇾 Miri 8.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 22.4% 42 of 1,878 🇸🇦 Jeddah 22.9%🇰🇼 Kuwait City 22.9%🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 22.7%🇻🇳 Thái Nguyên 22.7%Kofu🇺🇸 Las Vegas 22.1%🇴🇲 Seeb 21.9%🇯🇵 Shizuoka 21.4%🇳🇬 Lagos 21.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.4% 15 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Basingstoke 98.4%🇷🇺 Belgorod 98.4%🇺🇸 Columbia 98.4%🇺🇦 Donetsk 98.4%Kofu🇺🇸 McAllen 98.4%🇰🇿 Atyrau 98.3%🇷🇺 Krasnodar 98.3%🇺🇸 Lewisville 98.3%

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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