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
🇮🇩 Indonesia · metro 4.4M · 948 venues mapped

Medan

Where Medan 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 · in the atlas 🇲🇾 George Town 📖 275 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Medan does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink948 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
14%
open 24/7
Shops & errands352 places mapped
09:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
8%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
365
muggy days a year
14
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
289
umbrella days a year
103.9 m
of rain since 1981
3,242
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
2
volcanoes within 100 km
42 km
to Singkut
8.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:21
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.3 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
4,349
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMedan RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.4% 286 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Hastings 1.5%🇵🇪 Arequipa 1.4%🇮🇩 Bandung 1.4%🇬🇧 Harrogate 1.4%Medan🇯🇵 Shibata 1.4%🇱🇦 Vientiane 1.4%🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 1.4%🇩🇪 Celle 1.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇲🇦 Marrakesh 84 h🇮🇩 Mataram 84 h🇯🇵 Matsuyama 84 h🇲🇲 Mawlamyine 84 hMedan🇺🇸 Merced 84 h🇧🇾 Minsk 84 h🇺🇸 Mission Viejo 84 h🇯🇵 Mito 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.1% 401 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Belém 7.1%🇺🇿 Bukhara 7.1%🇮🇪 Galway 7.1%🇮🇪 Kilkenny 7.1%Medan🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 7.1%🇧🇬 Plovdiv 7.1%🇸🇪 Örebro 7.1%🇯🇵 Akita 7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.4% 370 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Gainesville 1.4%🇨🇺 Holguín 1.4%🇺🇸 Idaho Falls 1.4%🇳🇱 Leiden 1.4%Medan🇺🇸 Miami 1.4%🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 1.4%🇺🇸 Norfolk 1.4%🇺🇸 North Richland Hills 1.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 14.3% 93 of 1,878 🇨🇲 Yaoundé 14.5%🇹🇯 Hisor 14.3%🇷🇼 Kigali 14.3%🇪🇨 Latacunga 14.3%Medan🇮🇩 Rangkasbitung 14.3%🇸🇦 Riyadh 14.3%🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 14.3%🇨🇦 Sherbrooke 14.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 83.3% 150 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Abilene 83.3%🇬🇧 Bangor 83.3%🇮🇹 Caserta 83.3%🇮🇳 Chandigarh 83.3%Medan🇮🇹 Piacenza 83.3%🇮🇹 Ravenna 83.3%🇫🇷 Poissy 83.1%🇹🇳 Tunis 83.1%

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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