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

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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇺🇸 United States · metro 280k · 1,938 venues mapped

Nashville

Where Nashville 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 🇺🇸 Franklin 28 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 1,048 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Nashville 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 & drink1,938 places mapped
09:00–22:00
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15%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Shops & errands516 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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11%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
15%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
67
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
150
umbrella days a year
60.6 m
of rain since 1981
3,143
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1761.6 km
to Carrizozo
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:36
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.6 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
17,882
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNashville RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 15.1% 149 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Akron 15.1%🇫🇷 Angoulême 15.1%🇷🇺 Kaluga 15.1%🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 15.1%Nashville🇺🇸 Panama City 15.1%🇨🇦 Toronto 15.1%🇮🇹 Treviso 15.1%🇮🇹 Vicenza 15.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Malang 91 h🇷🇺 Maykop 91 h🇺🇸 Missoula 91 h🇺🇸 Modesto 91 hNashville🇹🇷 Nevşehir 91 h🇺🇸 Norfolk 91 h🇷🇺 Novorossiysk 91 h🇷🇺 Obninsk 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 37% 120 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Murfreesboro 37.2%🇺🇸 Alafaya 37.1%🇮🇹 Anzio 37.1%🇷🇺 Krasnodar 37.1%Nashville🇺🇸 South Bend 37%🇺🇸 Winston-Salem 37%🇺🇸 Savannah 36.9%🇺🇸 Cheyenne 36.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.9% 375 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Houston 0.9%🇷🇴 Iași 0.9%🇭🇺 Kecskemét 0.9%🇺🇦 Kharkiv 0.9%Nashville🇺🇸 Oklahoma City 0.9%🇷🇺 Orenburg 0.9%🇺🇸 Peabody 0.9%🇺🇸 Riverside 0.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.3% 168 of 1,878 🇺🇸 North Richland Hills 6.4%🇮🇹 Salerno 6.4%🇬🇧 Harlow 6.3%🇯🇵 Marugame 6.3%Nashville🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo 6.3%🇺🇸 Tulsa 6.3%🇷🇺 Vyborg 6.3%🇵🇭 Bamban 6.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Nagasaki 100%🇹🇭 Nakhon Ratchasima 100%🇷🇺 Nalchik 100%🇺🇸 Naples 100%Nashville🇹🇷 Nevşehir 100%🇺🇸 New Bedford 100%🇺🇸 New Britain 100%🇺🇸 New Hope 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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