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 812k · 1,014 venues mapped

Niigata

Where Niigata 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 🇯🇵 Shibata 26 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Tokyo 📖 255 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Niigata 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 & drink1,014 places mapped
11:00–24:00
0006121824
15%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
94h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
23%
open 24/7
Shops & errands364 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
79%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
73
muggy days a year
38
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
203
umbrella days a year
76.9 m
of rain since 1981
212
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
2
volcanoes within 100 km
70.5 km
to Numazawa
25.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:28
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.8 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
8,133
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNiigata RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 15.4% 146 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Bergamo 15.4%🇦🇹 Innsbruck 15.4%🇯🇵 Isesaki 15.4%🇯🇵 Kagoshima 15.4%Niigata🇪🇸 Pamplona 15.4%🇵🇹 Portimão 15.4%🇮🇷 Shiraz 15.4%🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 15.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 94.5 h 48 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Kannur 94.5 h🇦🇴 Luanda 94.5 h🇺🇸 Morgantown 94.5 h🇴🇲 Muscat 94.5 hNiigata🇳🇵 Pokhara 94.5 h🇹🇯 Proletar 94.5 h🇺🇸 Scranton 94.5 h🇺🇸 Tuscaloosa 94.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 15.4% 318 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Aldershot 15.4%🇩🇪 Fulda 15.4%🇬🇧 Hereford 15.4%🇯🇵 Isesaki 15.4%Niigata🇮🇹 Perugia 15.4%🇦🇷 Bahía Blanca 15.3%🇮🇩 Banjaran 15.3%🇨🇿 Liberec 15.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 7.7% 307 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Hamburg 7.8%🇹🇳 Hammamet 7.7%🇯🇵 Isesaki 7.7%🇯🇵 Kagoshima 7.7%Niigata🇻🇪 San Cristobal 7.7%🇧🇷 São Carlos 7.7%🇲🇹 Valletta 7.7%🇮🇷 Yazd 7.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 23.1% 39 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Blantyre 23.4%🇨🇺 Camagüey 23.1%🇮🇳 Chandigarh 23.1%🇯🇵 Kagoshima 23.1%Niigata🇬🇳 Coyah 22.9%🇸🇦 Jeddah 22.9%🇰🇼 Kuwait City 22.9%🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 22.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 New Britain 100%🇺🇸 New Hope 100%🇬🇧 Newbury 100%🇨🇦 Niagara Falls 100%Niigata🇺🇸 Norcross 100%🇺🇸 Normal 100%🇺🇸 Norman 100%🇺🇸 Norwalk 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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