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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🇦🇺 Australia · metro 4.0M · 7,494 venues mapped

Melbourne

Where Melbourne 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 112 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Melbourne in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇦🇺 Point Cook 22 km Nearest written profile 🇦🇺 Sydney 📖 713 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink7,494 places mapped
10:00–21:00
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands3,601 places mapped
07:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
80h
open per week
10%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
128
umbrella days a year
34.1 m
of rain since 1981
974
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
216.5 km
to Newer Volcanics Province
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:07
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.8 h
longest day of the year
7
public holidays, 2024
2,721
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMelbourne RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6% 240 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Ivano-Frankivsk 6%🇩🇪 Koblenz 6%🇮🇹 La Spezia 6%🇩🇪 Lippstadt 6%Melbourne🇺🇸 Peabody 6%🇮🇷 Tabriz 6%🇹🇼 Taipei 6%🇮🇹 Trento 6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 56 h 197 of 1,878 🇺🇾 Maldonado 56 h🇨🇴 Manizales 56 h🇩🇪 Marl 56 h🇯🇵 Marugame 56 hMelbourne🇮🇹 Mestre 56 h🇪🇸 Motril 56 h🇲🇽 Mérida 56 h🇬🇧 Newport 56 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 26% 218 of 1,878 🇮🇹 San Giuseppe Vesuviano 26.1%🇲🇽 Tijuana 26.1%🇺🇸 Watsonville 26.1%🇺🇸 Concord 26%Melbourne🇹🇭 Nakhon Ratchasima 26%🇭🇺 Szeged 26%🇳🇦 Windhoek 26%🇲🇦 Bouskoura 25.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 5.8% 326 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Macapá 5.9%🇺🇸 Santa Barbara 5.9%🇬🇧 Bristol 5.8%🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 5.8%Melbourne🇬🇧 York 5.8%🇬🇧 Bangor 5.7%🇬🇧 Bath 5.7%🇨🇳 Fuyang 5.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.3% 188 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Key West 4.3%🇷🇺 Kislovodsk 4.3%🇹🇭 Ko Samui 4.3%🇷🇺 Krasnodar 4.3%Melbourne🇮🇳 Mumbai 4.3%🇮🇳 New Delhi 4.3%🇵🇱 Przemyśl 4.3%🇨🇦 Sarnia 4.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 88.1% 112 of 1,704 🇧🇩 Savar 88.2%🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 88.1%🇮🇹 La Spezia 88.1%🇵🇹 Lisbon 88.1%Melbourne🇲🇽 Santiago de Querétaro 88%🇫🇷 Ajaccio 87.9%🇮🇹 Cagliari 87.9%🇦🇷 Cordoba 87.9%

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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