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
🇨🇦 Canada · metro 365k · 867 venues mapped

London

Where London 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 114 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Kitchener 76 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 169 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink867 places mapped
11:00–22:00
0006121824
18%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
76h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Services191 places mapped
09:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
53%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
7
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
143
umbrella days a year
31.3 m
of rain since 1981
848
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2177.3 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:53
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,077
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLondon RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 18.1% 120 of 1,878 🇪🇨 Otavalo 18.2%🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 18.2%🇺🇸 Champaign 18.1%🇫🇮 Jyväskylä 18.1%London🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 18.1%🇺🇸 Des Moines 18%🇪🇸 Salamanca 18%🇪🇸 Santander 18%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 76.5 h 114 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Arras 76.8 h🇹🇭 Bangkok 76.8 h🇬🇧 Southport 76.8 h🇺🇸 Fort Collins 76.5 hLondon🇪🇨 Puyo 76.5 h🇬🇧 Runcorn 76.5 h🇺🇸 Amarillo 76 h🇨🇦 Barrie 76 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 15.2% 320 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Almada 15.2%🇨🇭 Bern 15.2%🇬🇧 East Kilbride 15.2%🇮🇳 Hyderabad 15.2%London🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 15.2%🇪🇸 A Coruña 15.1%🇸🇦 Riyadh 15.1%🇨🇭 Zurich 15.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.9% 355 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Dalian 2.9%🇿🇦 Durban 2.9%🇨🇦 Hamilton 2.9%🇬🇧 Leicester 2.9%London🇬🇧 Manchester 2.9%🇬🇧 Mansfield 2.9%🇨🇦 Montreal 2.9%🇷🇺 Murmansk 2.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.7% 174 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Franklin 5.7%🇯🇵 Hirosaki 5.7%🇮🇳 Hyderabad 5.7%🇻🇳 Hội An 5.7%London🇪🇸 Murcia 5.7%🇮🇷 Rasht 5.7%🇺🇦 Rivne 5.7%🇬🇧 Scarborough 5.7%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities