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
🇲🇿 Mozambique · metro 3.5M · 646 venues mapped

Maputo

Where Maputo 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 82 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇿🇦 Centurion 440 km Nearest written profile 🇿🇦 Cape Town 📖 1,624 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Apr, May, 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 & errands1,023 places mapped
08:30–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
52%
take a midday break
Food & drink646 places mapped
08:30–22:00
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
79%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
108
muggy days a year
4
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
121
umbrella days a year
40.1 m
of rain since 1981
6,553
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1865.4 km
to Kyejo
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:06
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.8 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
7,926
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMaputo RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.4% 266 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Jonesboro 3.4%🇱🇹 Kaunas 3.4%🇸🇰 Košice 3.4%🇺🇸 Lowell 3.4%Maputo🇱🇦 Pakse 3.4%🇲🇽 Santiago de Querétaro 3.4%🇯🇵 Yokote 3.4%🇺🇸 Bend 3.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Manchester 84 h🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 84 h🇮🇳 Mangaluru 84 h🇺🇸 Manhattan 84 hMaputo🇲🇦 Marrakesh 84 h🇮🇩 Mataram 84 h🇯🇵 Matsuyama 84 h🇲🇲 Mawlamyine 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.8% 334 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Setúbal 13.9%🇹🇷 Eskisehir 13.8%🇯🇵 Kawagoe 13.8%🇮🇳 Mangaluru 13.8%Maputo🇨🇦 White Rock 13.8%🇬🇧 Chelmsford 13.7%🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 13.7%🇬🇧 Oxford 13.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 6.9% 315 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Boa Vista 6.9%🇬🇧 Bracknell 6.9%🇦🇺 Hobart 6.9%🇭🇰 Hong Kong 6.9%Maputo🇯🇵 Naha 6.9%🇧🇷 Salvador 6.9%🇮🇱 Yavne 6.9%🇳🇱 Zwolle 6.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.4% 197 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Kalamazoo 3.4%🇩🇪 Kleve 3.4%🇮🇳 Kolkata 3.4%🇨🇾 Limassol 3.4%Maputo🇺🇸 Olathe 3.4%🇬🇧 Preston 3.4%🇺🇸 Springfield 3.4%🇮🇹 Taranto 3.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 84% 144 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Lowestoft 84.1%🇵🇹 Porto 84.1%🇮🇩 Singkawang 84.1%🇮🇪 Cork 84%Maputo🇨🇱 Santiago 84%🇨🇦 Winnipeg 84%🇰🇪 Ngong 83.9%🇫🇮 Lahti 83.8%

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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