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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🇺🇸 United States · metro 13.5M · 15,733 venues mapped

Los Angeles

Where Los Angeles 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 25 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Los Angeles in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇺🇸 Norwalk 22 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 San Francisco 📖 559 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink15,733 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
12%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
82h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands4,262 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
11%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
34
umbrella days a year
17 m
of rain since 1981
2,945
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
261.2 km
to Salton Buttes
15
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:48
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
15,024
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLos Angeles RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12% 180 of 1,878 🇨🇿 Zlín 12.1%🇹🇷 Bandırma 12%🇨🇴 Cali 12%🇺🇸 Daytona Beach 12%Los Angeles🇬🇧 Scunthorpe 12%🇨🇭 Thun 12%🇦🇹 Wels 12%🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch 11.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 81.5 h 93 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Spokane 82 h🇪🇸 Zamora 82 h🇪🇸 Bilbao 81.8 h🇬🇧 King's Lynn 81.5 hLos Angeles🇪🇸 Avilés 81 h🇵🇭 Bamban 81 h🇺🇸 Bloomington 81 h🇪🇸 Dénia 81 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 29.5% 187 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Las Vegas 29.6%🇬🇧 Salisbury 29.6%🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 29.6%🇺🇸 Washington 29.6%Los Angeles🇺🇸 Annapolis 29.4%🇷🇴 Giurgiu 29.4%🇯🇵 Hino 29.4%🇮🇳 Muvattupuzha 29.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.2% 352 of 1,878 🇨🇺 Varadero 3.3%🇨🇳 Wuhan 3.3%🇯🇵 Fujikawaguchiko 3.2%🇧🇷 João Pessoa 3.2%Los Angeles🇳🇮 Managua 3.2%🇺🇸 Syracuse 3.2%🇬🇧 Wigan 3.2%🇨🇦 Cambridge 3.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.6% 195 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Hat Yai 3.6%🇯🇵 Himeji 3.6%🇷🇺 Irkutsk 3.6%🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 3.6%Los Angeles🇯🇵 Osaki 3.6%🇨🇿 Ostrava 3.6%🇸🇷 Paramaribo 3.6%🇧🇷 Recife 3.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.4% 25 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Hazel Park 97.4%🇺🇸 Lacey 97.4%🇺🇸 Lakeland 97.4%🇦🇺 Langwarrin 97.4%Los Angeles🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 97.4%🇨🇦 Pickering 97.4%🇷🇺 Volgograd 97.4%🇰🇷 Daegu 97.3%

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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