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

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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.

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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
🇮🇳 India · metro 31.4M · 3,759 venues mapped

New Delhi

Where New Delhi 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 54 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇮🇳 Agra 178 km Nearest written profile 🇰🇿 Almaty 📖 1,627 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Feb, Mar, Oct, 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 & drink3,759 places mapped
10:00–23:00
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,899 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
88h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
16%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
100
muggy days a year
125
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
85
umbrella days a year
34 m
of rain since 1981
11,124
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
894.6 km
to Ashikule Volcanic Field
1.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:29
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
7,877
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNew Delhi RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.2% 198 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Detroit 10.2%🇳🇱 Groningen 10.2%🇯🇲 Kingston 10.2%🇮🇳 Kochi 10.2%New Delhi🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 10.2%🇺🇸 Redlands 10.2%🇺🇸 Reno 10.2%🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 10.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Murmansk 84 h🇮🇳 Mysuru 84 h🇰🇪 Nairobi 84 h🇨🇳 Nanjing 84 hNew Delhi🇺🇸 New Orleans 84 h🇸🇰 Nitra 84 h🇺🇸 Normal 84 h🇷🇺 Omsk 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.2% 380 of 1,878 🇨🇿 Frýdek-Místek 9.2%🇦🇹 Innsbruck 9.2%🇮🇷 Karaj 9.2%🇯🇵 Nagano 9.2%New Delhi🇫🇷 Nice 9.2%🇳🇴 Trondheim 9.2%🇫🇷 Angers 9.1%🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 9.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2% 364 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Iowa City 2%🇷🇺 Khabarovsk 2%🇦🇺 Langwarrin 2%🇬🇧 Liverpool 2%New Delhi🇺🇸 Normal 2%🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 2%🇺🇸 Poway 2%🇨🇦 Sherbrooke 2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.3% 188 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Ko Samui 4.3%🇷🇺 Krasnodar 4.3%🇦🇺 Melbourne 4.3%🇮🇳 Mumbai 4.3%New Delhi🇵🇱 Przemyśl 4.3%🇨🇦 Sarnia 4.3%🇷🇺 Smolensk 4.3%🇺🇸 Winston-Salem 4.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94.5% 54 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Scunthorpe 94.6%🇯🇵 Yokote 94.6%🇬🇧 Derby 94.5%🇺🇸 Milwaukee 94.5%New Delhi🇬🇧 Sheffield 94.5%🇬🇧 Wishaw 94.5%🇬🇧 East Kilbride 94.4%🇺🇸 Knoxville 94.4%

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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