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.

All 24 rankings →
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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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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.

Read the method →
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
🇺🇸 United States · metro 14.2M · 24,215 venues mapped

New York City

Where New York City 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 43 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Williamsburg 4 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Montreal 📖 534 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else New York City 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 & drink24,215 places mapped
10:30–22:00
0006121824
14%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
80h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands7,790 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
104h
open per week
24%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
49
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
141
umbrella days a year
57 m
of rain since 1981
108
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2766.5 km
to Saba
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:32
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.1 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,701
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNew York City RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.2% 158 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Osaki 14.3%🇸🇷 Paramaribo 14.3%🇮🇷 Rasht 14.3%🇺🇸 Smyrna 14.3%New York City🇫🇷 Paris 14.2%🇦🇹 Villach 14.2%🇫🇷 Brest 14.1%🇯🇵 Fukuoka 14.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 80 h 97 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Amora 80 h🇺🇸 Annapolis 80 h🇨🇳 Chengdu 80 h🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 80 hNew York City🇺🇸 Traverse City 80 h🇵🇱 Zakopane 80 h🇺🇸 Atlanta 79.8 h🇺🇸 Chico 79.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 25.9% 219 of 1,878 🇳🇦 Windhoek 26%🇲🇦 Bouskoura 25.9%🇨🇴 Chía 25.9%🇺🇸 Draper 25.9%New York City🇮🇹 Cremona 25.8%🇨🇳 Guangzhou 25.8%🇺🇸 Hilo 25.8%🇨🇦 Oshawa 25.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.2% 362 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Hilo 2.2%🇱🇹 Kaunas 2.2%🇺🇸 Milwaukee 2.2%🇷🇺 Moscow 2.2%New York City🇨🇦 Ottawa 2.2%🇺🇸 Rochester 2.2%🇺🇸 Salinas 2.2%🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 2.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4% 191 of 1,878 🇮🇱 Jerusalem 4%🇱🇹 Kaunas 4%🇺🇸 Lynn 4%🇯🇵 Nagano 4%New York City🇷🇺 Samara 4%🇺🇸 Stockton 4%🇦🇺 Toowoomba 4%🇭🇰 Tuen Mun 4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95.6% 43 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Baton Rouge 95.6%🇿🇦 Cape Town 95.6%🇬🇧 Livingston 95.6%🇲🇽 Mérida 95.6%New York City🇺🇦 Odesa 95.6%🇷🇺 Stavropol 95.6%🇺🇸 Cincinnati 95.5%🇵🇪 Cusco 95.5%

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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