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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🇯🇵 Japan · metro 7.7M · 11,086 venues mapped

Nagoya

Where Nagoya 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 19 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇯🇵 Gamagori 49 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Osaka 📖 139 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Nagoya 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 & drink11,086 places mapped
11:00–22:38
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
16%
take a midday break
11%
open 24/7
Shops & errands5,369 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
76%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
96
muggy days a year
30
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
159
umbrella days a year
77.5 m
of rain since 1981
1,727
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
108.9 km
to Hakusan
20.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:44
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.5 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
7,782
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNagoya RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.2% 208 of 1,878 🇳🇴 Drammen 9.2%🇫🇮 Lahti 9.2%🇦🇹 Linz 9.2%🇺🇸 Lynn 9.2%Nagoya🇨🇿 Pilsen 9.2%🇺🇸 Seattle 9.2%🇷🇺 Voronezh 9.2%🇭🇷 Zadar 9.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Madrid 77 h🇲🇽 Mexicali 77 h🇰🇷 Mokpo 77 h🇺🇸 Mount Vernon 77 hNagoya🇮🇹 Naples 77 h🇯🇵 Narita 77 h🇵🇭 Nasugbu 77 h🇺🇸 National City 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 14.1% 331 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Stoke-on-Trent 14.2%🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 14.2%🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 14.2%🇮🇳 Kottayam 14.1%Nagoya🇮🇹 Novara 14.1%🇬🇧 Preston 14.1%🇮🇩 Singkawang 14.1%🇯🇴 Amman 14%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 15.8% 237 of 1,878 🇹🇼 Taipei 16.3%🇵🇹 Almada 16.2%🇯🇵 Hakodate 15.9%🇩🇪 Kleve 15.9%Nagoya🇨🇭 Thun 15.8%🇯🇵 Tsukuba 15.8%🇩🇪 Bonn 15.7%🇩🇪 Krefeld 15.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 11% 121 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Seririt 11.1%🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 11.1%🇺🇸 Blue Springs 11%🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 11%Nagoya🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 11%🇵🇭 Agoo 10.9%🇷🇺 Kazan 10.9%🇮🇳 Kottayam 10.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98% 19 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Hanno 98%🇺🇸 Irving 98%🇿🇦 Johannesburg 98%🇺🇸 Mesa 98%Nagoya🇺🇸 Peabody 98%🇷🇺 Penza 98%🇺🇸 South Bend 98%🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 98%

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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