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.

Read the method →
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
🇮🇩 Indonesia · metro 1.9M · 888 venues mapped

Malang

Where Malang 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 10 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇮🇩 Surabaya 82 km Nearest written profile 🇸🇬 Singapore 📖 1,418 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink888 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
20%
open 24/7
Shops & errands758 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
68%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
287
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
229
umbrella days a year
84.7 m
of rain since 1981
4,202
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
7
volcanoes within 100 km
20.9 km
to Kawi-Butak
18.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:20
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.6 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
2,686
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMalang RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.8% 282 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Chartres 1.8%🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 1.8%🇳🇱 Geleen 1.8%🇹🇭 Hat Yai 1.8%Malang🇵🇭 Nasugbu 1.8%🇧🇪 Ostend 1.8%🇩🇪 Reinbek 1.8%🇨🇴 Rionegro 1.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Lexington 91 h🇺🇸 Little Elm 91 h🇷🇺 Lobnya 91 h🇷🇺 Makhachkala 91 hMalang🇷🇺 Maykop 91 h🇺🇸 Missoula 91 h🇺🇸 Modesto 91 h🇺🇸 Nashville 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 20.9% 265 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Halifax 21%🇲🇾 Ipoh 21%🇲🇲 Twante 21%🇮🇹 Chieti 20.9%Malang🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 20.9%🇬🇧 Reading 20.9%🇱🇰 Ambalangoda 20.8%🇧🇿 Belize City 20.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Luton 0%🇺🇦 Lutsk 0%🇺🇦 Lviv 0%🇭🇰 Ma On Shan 0%Malang🇺🇸 Manchester 0%🇪🇨 Manta 0%🇻🇪 Maracaibo 0%🇧🇷 Maringá 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 20% 55 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Banjaran 20.3%🇺🇿 Bukhara 20%🇰🇷 Chuncheon 20%🇨🇳 Hefei 20%Malang🇪🇨 Quito 20%🇨🇺 Varadero 20%🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 19.7%🇦🇴 Lubango 19.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.9% 10 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Akita 98.9%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 98.9%🇺🇸 Dunwoody 98.9%🇿🇦 Durban 98.9%Malang🇺🇸 Phoenix 98.9%🇱🇾 Tripoli 98.9%🇷🇺 Zelenograd 98.9%🇺🇦 Zhytomyr 98.9%

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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