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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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.
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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇮🇹 Italy · metro 102k · 790 venues mapped

Massa

Where Massa 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 133 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇹 Viareggio 21 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Milan 📖 176 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, 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 & drink790 places mapped
10:30–23:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
25%
take a midday break
Shops & errands319 places mapped
07:30–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
24%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
8
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
130
umbrella days a year
41.4 m
of rain since 1981
226
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
329.4 km
to Colli Albani
9.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:44
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.5 h
longest day of the year
13
public holidays, 2024
13,590
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMassa RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.5% 215 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Iași 8.5%🇧🇷 Jaraguá do Sul 8.5%🇮🇳 Kolkata 8.5%🇯🇵 Koriyama 8.5%Massa🇺🇸 New Hope 8.5%🇺🇸 Philadelphia 8.5%🇵🇾 Presidente Franco 8.5%🇧🇷 Santa Maria 8.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 72 h 133 of 1,878 🇬🇦 Libreville 72 h🇨🇭 Locarno 72 h🇵🇱 Lodz 72 h🇧🇷 Manaus 72 hMassa🇨🇴 Medellín 72 h🇲🇽 Mexico City 72 h🇭🇺 Miskolc 72 h🇲🇽 Monterrey 72 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 22% 255 of 1,878 🇰🇪 Nairobi 22.1%🇭🇷 Pula 22.1%🇯🇵 Tokyo 22.1%🇮🇹 Gallarate 22%Massa🇯🇵 Sakata 22%🇳🇿 Hamilton 21.9%🇮🇹 Trieste 21.9%🇺🇸 Naples 21.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 25.4% 156 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Unna 25.7%🇮🇹 Arezzo 25.6%🇩🇪 Darmstadt 25.5%🇪🇸 Gijón 25.4%Massa🇯🇵 Nagano 25.4%🇮🇹 Chieti 25.3%🇪🇸 Mataró 25.3%🇪🇸 Alicante 25.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇺🇾 Maldonado 0%🇺🇸 Mansfield 0%🇻🇪 Maracaibo 0%🇫🇷 Marignane 0%Massa🇮🇹 Matera 0%🇯🇵 Matsue 0%🇲🇽 Mazatlán 0%🇺🇸 McAllen 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 76.2% 208 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Rimini 76.3%🇳🇱 Breda 76.2%🇨🇴 Chía 76.2%🇮🇹 Gallarate 76.2%Massa🇮🇳 Puducherry 76.2%🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 76.2%🇮🇹 Vercelli 76.1%🇦🇷 Mar del Plata 76%

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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