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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The index

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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 10.4M · 29,112 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 shops open on sunday, where it ranks 48 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read London in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 24 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 320 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Best time to visit Jun, Jul, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink29,112 places mapped
11:00–23:00
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10%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
74h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
Shops & errands8,986 places mapped
07:00–22:30
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0%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
104h
open per week
9%
open 24/7
Culture2,857 places mapped
10:00–19:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
48%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
Services2,722 places mapped
09:00–18:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
24%
open on Sundays
51h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
139
umbrella days a year
32.1 m
of rain since 1981
47
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
511.7 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:54
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.6 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,479
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLondon RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.6% 204 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Numazu 9.7%🇷🇴 Râmnicu Vâlcea 9.7%🇬🇧 Cheltenham 9.6%🇺🇸 Henderson 9.6%London🇷🇺 Murmansk 9.6%🇺🇸 New Britain 9.6%🇺🇸 North Richland Hills 9.6%🇺🇸 Scranton 9.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 73.5 h 127 of 1,878 🇰🇷 Gwangju 73.5 h🇨🇦 Hamilton 73.5 h🇵🇪 Huancayo 73.5 h🇵🇹 Lisbon 73.5 hLondon🇲🇴 Macau 73.5 h🇺🇸 Norristown 73.5 h🇯🇵 Numazu 73.5 h🇯🇵 Oita 73.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 20.5% 269 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Regina 20.7%🇪🇸 Granollers 20.6%🇻🇳 Hanoi 20.6%🇬🇧 Harrogate 20.5%London🇨🇴 Riohacha 20.5%🇸🇰 Banská Bystrica 20.4%🇯🇵 Kisarazu 20.4%🇨🇦 Ottawa 20.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 5.5% 329 of 1,878 🇻🇳 Phú Quốc 5.6%🇺🇸 Pleasanton 5.6%🇬🇧 Bournemouth 5.5%🇺🇸 Bridgeport 5.5%London🇺🇸 Santa Fe 5.5%🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 5.4%🇷🇺 Kazan 5.4%🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo 5.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.5% 216 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 1.5%🇳🇱 Helmond 1.5%🇬🇧 Inverness 1.5%🇪🇸 León 1.5%London🇦🇷 Mar del Plata 1.5%🇨🇿 Pilsen 1.5%🇵🇱 Szczecin 1.5%🇲🇹 Valletta 1.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95.1% 48 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Brighton 95.1%🇦🇺 Brisbane 95.1%🇺🇸 Fort Wayne 95.1%🇺🇸 Lafayette 95.1%London🇨🇳 Nanjing 95.1%🇹🇼 Taichung 95.1%🇷🇴 Constanța 95%🇺🇸 Dayton 95%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities