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 23.3M · 712 venues mapped

Kolkata

Where Kolkata 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 🇧🇩 Savar 240 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 1,181 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, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink712 places mapped
11:00–23:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands261 places mapped
09:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
80h
open per week
11%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
214
muggy days a year
174
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
167
umbrella days a year
69.1 m
of rain since 1981
10,435
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
734.3 km
to Popa
1
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:57
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.5 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
6,731
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKolkata RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.5% 215 of 1,878 🇹🇯 Dushanbe 8.5%🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 8.5%🇷🇴 Iași 8.5%🇧🇷 Jaraguá do Sul 8.5%Kolkata🇯🇵 Koriyama 8.5%🇮🇹 Massa 8.5%🇺🇸 New Hope 8.5%🇺🇸 Philadelphia 8.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 84 h🇱🇹 Klaipėda 84 h🇮🇳 Kochi 84 h🇯🇵 Kofu 84 hKolkata🇬🇷 Kos 84 h🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 84 h🇮🇳 Kottayam 84 h🇮🇳 Koyilandy 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.7% 395 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Hamburg 7.7%🇩🇪 Hennigsdorf 7.7%🇯🇵 Kagoshima 7.7%🇸🇪 Karlstad 7.7%Kolkata🇫🇷 Montauban 7.7%🇩🇪 Munich 7.7%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 7.7%🇧🇷 Sorocaba 7.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.6% 358 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Wichita Falls 2.7%🇸🇰 Bratislava 2.6%🇸🇪 Helsingborg 2.6%🇵🇪 Huaraz 2.6%Kolkata🇺🇸 Muncie 2.6%🇲🇽 Mérida 2.6%🇺🇸 Provo 2.6%🇲🇰 Skopje 2.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.4% 197 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Annapolis 3.4%🇺🇸 Indianapolis 3.4%🇺🇸 Kalamazoo 3.4%🇩🇪 Kleve 3.4%Kolkata🇨🇾 Limassol 3.4%🇲🇿 Maputo 3.4%🇺🇸 Olathe 3.4%🇬🇧 Preston 3.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 82.2% 160 of 1,704 🇳🇱 Heemskerk 82.4%🇧🇷 São Paulo 82.4%🇮🇹 Palermo 82.3%🇵🇹 Almada 82.2%Kolkata🇨🇴 Tunja 82.2%🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 82.1%🇺🇸 Johnson City 82.1%🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 82.1%

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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