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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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
🇯🇵 Japan · metro 82k · 210 venues mapped

Muroran

Where Muroran 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 14 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇯🇵 Hakodate 64 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Tokyo 📖 745 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Muroran 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 & drink210 places mapped
11:00–22:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands103 places mapped
05:45–24:00
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
130h
open per week
47%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
21
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
193
umbrella days a year
56.1 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
7
volcanoes within 100 km
23.9 km
to Kuttara
33.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:07
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.3 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
8,648
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMuroran RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8% 220 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Carcassonne 8%🇩🇰 Copenhagen 8%🇳🇮 León 8%🇺🇸 Livermore 8%Muroran🇯🇵 Naha 8%🇵🇱 Poznan 8%🇺🇸 Simi Valley 8%🇺🇸 Syracuse 8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇹🇬 Lomé 70 h🇲🇽 Mazatlán 70 h🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 70 h🇨🇦 Montreal 70 hMuroran🇪🇸 Málaga 70 h🇵🇱 Olsztyn 70 h🇨🇦 Ottawa 70 h🇵🇱 Pabianice 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 4% 432 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Aachen 4%🇳🇱 Alkmaar 4%🇷🇺 Ivanovo 4%🇫🇷 Montbéliard 4%Muroran🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 4%🇷🇺 Cherepovets 3.9%🇯🇵 Fukuyama 3.9%🇨🇺 Havana 3.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 12% 270 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Shibata 12.2%🇩🇪 Dessau 12.1%🇩🇪 Münster 12.1%🇸🇬 Singapore 12.1%Muroran🇨🇦 Peterborough 12%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 12%🇬🇧 Colchester 11.9%🇩🇪 Görlitz 11.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 8% 151 of 1,878 🇲🇲 Twante 8.1%🇹🇷 Bodrum 8%🇳🇮 León 8%🇺🇸 Miami 8%Muroran🇨🇦 Peterborough 8%🇨🇦 Regina 8%🇮🇩 Makassar 7.9%🇺🇸 Sherwood 7.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.5% 14 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Houston 98.6%🇺🇸 Tucson 98.6%🇷🇺 Tver 98.6%🇺🇸 Fairland 98.5%Muroran🇷🇺 Smolensk 98.5%🇷🇺 Taganrog 98.5%🇹🇼 Toufen 98.5%🇷🇺 Tyumen 98.5%

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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