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

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
🇧🇷 Brazil · metro 1.7M · 1,952 venues mapped

Niterói

Where Niterói 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 107 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 8 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇷 São Paulo 📖 368 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,952 places mapped
10:38–23:00
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12%
open past midnight
79%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Shops & errands978 places mapped
07:30–21:45
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0%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
93h
open per week
6%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
179
muggy days a year
10
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
164
umbrella days a year
67.3 m
of rain since 1981
1,973
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2493.5 km
to Cordon de Puntas Negras
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:15
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.5 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
13,520
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNiterói RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.7% 183 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Dallas 11.7%🇳🇿 Hamilton 11.7%🇺🇸 Las Vegas 11.7%🇺🇸 Manchester 11.7%Niterói🇺🇸 Norman 11.7%🇨🇺 Varadero 11.7%🇮🇹 Ascoli Piceno 11.6%🇺🇸 Columbus 11.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 78 h 107 of 1,878 🇨🇾 Limassol 78 h🇪🇸 Logroño 78 h🇬🇧 Maidstone 78 h🇺🇸 Naples 78 hNiterói🇺🇸 Portland 78 h🇺🇸 Reading 78 h🇬🇧 Slough 78 h🇯🇵 Tokyo 78 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.9% 373 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Utsunomiya 10%🇧🇷 Araraquara 9.9%🇪🇸 Córdoba 9.9%🇬🇧 Littlehampton 9.9%Niterói🇨🇦 Pickering 9.9%🇫🇷 Toulon 9.9%🇫🇮 Turku 9.9%🇧🇷 Cuiabá 9.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.8% 366 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Izmir 1.8%🇬🇧 Kidderminster 1.8%🇫🇮 Lahti 1.8%🇺🇸 Mansfield 1.8%Niterói🇸🇰 Trnava 1.8%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 1.8%🇬🇧 Wakefield 1.8%🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 1.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.8% 173 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Abakan 5.8%🇺🇸 Alafaya 5.8%🇷🇴 Bucharest 5.8%🇦🇷 Cordoba 5.8%Niterói🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 5.8%🇬🇧 Runcorn 5.8%🇮🇷 Shiraz 5.8%🇷🇺 Sochi 5.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 81.9% 163 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Johnson City 82.1%🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 82.1%🇧🇷 Sapiranga 82.1%🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 82%Niterói🇮🇳 Kollam 81.8%🇨🇦 Nanaimo 81.8%🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 81.8%🇨🇱 Valparaíso 81.8%

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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