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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🇷🇸 Serbia · metro 219k · 383 venues mapped

Niš

Where Niš places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 76 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇷🇸 Kragujevac 111 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇬 Sofia 📖 135 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, Jul, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink383 places mapped
09:00–23:00
0006121824
20%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
86h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands373 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
7%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
121
umbrella days a year
29.1 m
of rain since 1981
1,607
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
645.9 km
to Methana
4.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:00
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
12,669
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNiš RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 20.5% 102 of 1,878 🇨🇱 Rancagua 20.6%🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 20.5%🇸🇳 Dakar 20.5%🇺🇸 Great Falls 20.5%Niš🇫🇮 Oulu 20.5%🇺🇸 North Charleston 20.4%🇮🇹 Parma 20.4%🇲🇾 Alor Setar 20.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 86 h 76 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Kemerovo 86 h🇺🇸 Lewisville 86 h🇺🇸 Manassas Park 86 h🇺🇸 Mansfield 86 hNiš🇺🇸 Norman 86 h🇺🇸 Olathe 86 h🇺🇸 Puyallup 86 h🇺🇸 Sacramento 86 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.3% 389 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Gorzów Wielkopolski 8.3%🇸🇪 Lund 8.3%🇪🇨 Manta 8.3%🇫🇷 Montpellier 8.3%Niš🇷🇺 Odintsovo 8.3%🇫🇷 Rouen 8.3%🇨🇺 Varadero 8.3%🇫🇷 Brest 8.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.8% 376 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Louisville 0.8%🇨🇴 Medellín 0.8%🇺🇸 Mesa 0.8%🇨🇦 Nanaimo 0.8%Niš🇺🇸 Norwalk 0.8%🇸🇦 Riyadh 0.8%🇷🇺 Ryazan 0.8%🇦🇱 Shkoder 0.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3% 201 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 3%🇺🇸 Chico 3%🇺🇸 Coeur d'Alene 3%🇺🇸 Lewisville 3%Niš🇮🇹 Palermo 3%🇺🇸 San Marcos 3%🇬🇧 Southampton 3%🇫🇷 Vannes 3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 88.2% 111 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Trenton 88.3%🇬🇧 Bristol 88.2%🇬🇧 Cardiff 88.2%🇺🇸 Grand Junction 88.2%Niš🇧🇩 Savar 88.2%🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 88.1%🇮🇹 La Spezia 88.1%🇵🇹 Lisbon 88.1%

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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