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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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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
🇺🇸 United States · metro 83k · 233 venues mapped

Merced

Where Merced 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Turlock 39 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 San Francisco 📖 179 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, Sep, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink233 places mapped
09:00–22:00
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7%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
Shops & errands83 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
25%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
4
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
53
umbrella days a year
21.8 m
of rain since 1981
5,942
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
133.2 km
to Mammoth Mountain
4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:48
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.7 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,901
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMerced RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.1% 229 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Launceston 7.1%🇺🇸 Longview 7.1%🇵🇭 Manila 7.1%🇯🇵 Matsuyama 7.1%Merced🇨🇿 Prague 7.1%🇬🇧 Stoke-on-Trent 7.1%🇯🇵 Takaoka 7.1%🇷🇺 Zelenograd 7.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Mataram 84 h🇯🇵 Matsuyama 84 h🇲🇲 Mawlamyine 84 h🇮🇩 Medan 84 hMerced🇧🇾 Minsk 84 h🇺🇸 Mission Viejo 84 h🇯🇵 Mito 84 h🇮🇳 Mumbai 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 33.9% 150 of 1,878 🇺🇸 New Orleans 34.1%🇺🇸 Santa Fe 34.1%🇺🇸 Layton 34%🇺🇸 Harrisonburg 33.9%Merced🇮🇹 Pescara 33.8%🇺🇸 Cincinnati 33.7%🇨🇦 Kelowna 33.6%🇺🇸 Medford 33.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.6% 348 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Basildon 3.6%🇵🇭 Cebu City 3.6%🇰🇷 Daejeon 3.6%🇷🇼 Kigali 3.6%Merced🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 3.6%🇨🇦 Vancouver 3.6%🇺🇸 Bakersfield 3.5%🇨🇳 Beijing 3.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Mazatlán 0%🇺🇸 McAllen 0%🇧🇪 Mechelen 0%🇩🇿 Meftah 0%Merced🇮🇹 Messina 0%🇫🇷 Metz 0%🇲🇽 Mexicali 0%🇹🇼 Miaoli 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Martinez 100%🇯🇵 Matsumoto 100%🇩🇿 Meftah 100%🇺🇸 Memphis 100%Merced🇯🇵 Misawa 100%🇺🇸 Missoula 100%🇯🇵 Miyazaki 100%🇺🇸 Modesto 100%

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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