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
🇦🇴 Angola · metro 11.7M · 924 venues mapped

Luanda

Where Luanda 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 48 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇬 Pointe-Noire 476 km Nearest written profile 🇷🇼 Kigali 📖 2,013 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands1,065 places mapped
07:30–21:15
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
29%
open 24/7
Food & drink924 places mapped
09:00–23:00
0006121824
16%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
94h
open per week
13%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
275
muggy days a year
178
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
65
umbrella days a year
18.3 m
of rain since 1981
3,382
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1467.8 km
to Basile, Pico
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:56
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.6 h
longest day of the year
15
public holidays, 2024
10,658
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLuanda RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 16.4% 136 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Derby 16.6%🇮🇪 Galway 16.5%🇺🇸 Tampa 16.5%🇪🇸 Donostia / San Sebastián 16.4%Luanda🇯🇵 Tsuruoka 16.4%🇷🇺 Vladimir 16.4%🇰🇿 Almaty 16.3%🇩🇪 Kehl 16.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 94.5 h 48 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Huelva 94.5 h🇹🇷 Istanbul 94.5 h🇷🇺 Izhevsk 94.5 h🇮🇳 Kannur 94.5 hLuanda🇺🇸 Morgantown 94.5 h🇴🇲 Muscat 94.5 h🇯🇵 Niigata 94.5 h🇳🇵 Pokhara 94.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18% 292 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Calgary 18.1%🇹🇭 Phitsanulok 18.1%🇷🇴 Râmnicu Vâlcea 18.1%🇮🇹 La Spezia 18%Luanda🇮🇹 Pistoia 18%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 18%🇬🇧 Dunfermline 17.9%🇯🇵 Hanno 17.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇳🇮 León 0%🇨🇿 Liberec 0%🇵🇱 Lodz 0%🇹🇬 Lomé 0%Luanda🇦🇴 Lubango 0%🇺🇦 Luhansk 0%🇿🇲 Lusaka 0%🇬🇧 Luton 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 13.1% 101 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Tarlac City 13.3%🇮🇳 Varanasi 13.3%🇺🇦 Kharkiv 13.2%🇷🇺 Tver 13.2%Luanda🇹🇷 Denizli 13%🇪🇸 Lleida 13%🇳🇮 Managua 12.9%🇩🇿 Oran 12.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 92.1% 77 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Albuquerque 92.1%🇮🇹 Catania 92.1%🇺🇸 Honolulu 92.1%🇱🇹 Kaunas 92.1%Luanda🇨🇦 Saskatoon 92.1%🇺🇦 Ternopil 92.1%🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 92.1%🇬🇧 Mansfield 92%

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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