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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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇯🇵 Japan · metro 847k · 2,610 venues mapped

Okayama

Where Okayama 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 27 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇯🇵 Marugame 43 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Osaka 📖 143 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Okayama 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 & drink2,610 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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7%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
69h
open per week
20%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands995 places mapped
00:00–24:00
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0%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
68%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
95
muggy days a year
26
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
128
umbrella days a year
63.4 m
of rain since 1981
1,812
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
131.5 km
to Sanbesan
8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:58
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.5 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
7,643
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureOkayama RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.3% 227 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 7.3%🇹🇭 Khon Kaen 7.3%🇺🇸 Norwalk 7.3%🇩🇰 Odense 7.3%Okayama🇩🇪 Paderborn 7.3%🇩🇪 Regensburg 7.3%🇬🇧 Runcorn 7.3%🇩🇪 Saarlouis 7.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 68.6 h 145 of 1,878 🇭🇺 Veszprém 69 h🇦🇹 Vienna 69 h🇸🇪 Västerås 69 h🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 69 hOkayama🇬🇧 Aldershot 68.5 h🇬🇧 Dunfermline 68.5 h🇧🇷 Goiânia 68.5 h🇺🇸 Olympia 68.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.7% 405 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Bonn 6.7%🇨🇴 Duitama 6.7%🇩🇪 Koblenz 6.7%🇮🇳 Koyilandy 6.7%Okayama🇵🇱 Olsztyn 6.7%🇰🇬 Osh 6.7%🇮🇳 Payyanur 6.7%🇫🇷 Perpignan 6.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 19.7% 205 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Dos Hermanas 20%🇫🇷 Les Sables-d'Olonne 20%🇺🇾 Maldonado 20%🇮🇹 Messina 20%Okayama🇮🇹 Pistoia 19.7%🇵🇾 Presidente Franco 19.7%🇩🇪 Regensburg 19.6%🇩🇪 Reutlingen 19.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.2% 179 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Flint 5.2%🇹🇷 Gölbaşı 5.2%🇨🇦 Halifax 5.2%🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne 5.2%Okayama🇨🇦 Quebec 5.2%🇰🇭 Siem Reap 5.2%🇺🇸 Smyrna 5.2%🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 5.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.2% 27 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Hiroshima 97.2%🇺🇸 Jacksonville 97.2%🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 97.2%🇺🇸 Norfolk 97.2%Okayama🇺🇸 Syracuse 97.2%🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 97.1%🇪🇬 Cairo 97.1%🇬🇧 Cannock 97.1%

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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