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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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
🇹🇼 Taiwan · metro 75k · 385 venues mapped

Miaoli

Where Miaoli 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 11 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇹🇼 Toufen 16 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇼 Taipei 📖 89 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, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink385 places mapped
10:42–20:40
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2%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
18%
take a midday break
Shops & errands300 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
54%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
186
muggy days a year
120
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
171
umbrella days a year
72.3 m
of rain since 1981
567
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
100.4 km
to Tatun Volcanic Group
40.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:14
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.7 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
6,306
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMiaoli RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.2% 278 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Araraquara 2.2%🇦🇱 Elbasan 2.2%🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 2.2%🇧🇪 La Louvière 2.2%Miaoli🇭🇺 Székesfehérvár 2.2%🇬🇧 Blantyre 2.1%🇨🇿 Hradec Králové 2.1%🇧🇷 Londrina 2.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Les Sables-d'Olonne 63 h🇪🇸 León 63 h🇬🇧 Lincoln 63 h🇪🇸 Marbella 63 hMiaoli🇺🇾 Montevideo 63 h🇳🇴 Oslo 63 h🇨🇦 Peterborough 63 h🇩🇪 Potsdam 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.3% 339 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Cartagena 13.3%🇦🇷 Cipolletti 13.3%🇪🇸 Cáceres 13.3%🇱🇺 Luxembourg 13.3%Miaoli🇯🇵 Nagasaki 13.3%🇦🇹 Villach 13.3%🇨🇭 Aarau 13.2%🇩🇪 Erlangen 13.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 17.8% 223 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Kempten (Allgäu) 18%🇩🇪 Fulda 17.9%🇵🇹 Portimão 17.9%🇩🇪 Chemnitz 17.8%Miaoli🇩🇪 Passau 17.8%🇩🇪 Würzburg 17.8%🇬🇧 Lowestoft 17.7%🇯🇵 Miyazaki 17.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Merced 0%🇮🇹 Messina 0%🇫🇷 Metz 0%🇲🇽 Mexicali 0%Miaoli🇨🇦 Milton 0%🇩🇪 Minden 0%🇭🇺 Miskolc 0%🇯🇵 Miyazaki 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.8% 11 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Hemet 98.8%🇹🇼 Kaohsiung 98.8%🇯🇵 Kawagoe 98.8%🇺🇸 Livermore 98.8%Miaoli🇺🇸 Orlando 98.8%🇷🇺 Ryazan 98.8%🇯🇵 Shibata 98.8%🇯🇵 Tsukuba 98.8%

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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