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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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇯🇵 Japan · metro 12.7M · 28,583 venues mapped

Osaka

Where Osaka 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 23 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Osaka in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇯🇵 Kishiwada 28 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Tokyo 📖 397 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Osaka 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 & drink28,583 places mapped
11:00–22:30
0006121824
11%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
13%
take a midday break
7%
open 24/7
Shops & errands9,049 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
73%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
88
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
142
umbrella days a year
78.5 m
of rain since 1981
1,390
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
199.1 km
to Hakusan
21.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:51
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.5 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
7,690
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureOsaka RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.8% 192 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Lublin 10.8%🇺🇸 Mansfield 10.8%🇫🇷 Metz 10.8%🇧🇾 Minsk 10.8%Osaka🇺🇸 Palm Bay 10.8%🇵🇹 Porto 10.8%🇺🇸 Rapid City 10.8%🇺🇸 Richmond 10.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 67.5 h 149 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Terrassa 68 h🇲🇽 Valladolid 68 h🇬🇧 Banbury 67.5 h🇪🇸 Cáceres 67.5 hOsaka🇺🇸 San Francisco 67.5 h🇪🇸 Valladolid 67.5 h🇬🇧 Wakefield 67.5 h🇬🇧 Gillingham 67.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.4% 378 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Lancaster 9.4%🇫🇷 Lorient 9.4%🇮🇳 Lucknow 9.4%🇬🇧 Northampton 9.4%Osaka🇺🇦 Zhytomyr 9.4%🇨🇺 Cienfuegos 9.3%🇭🇷 Dubrovnik 9.3%🇯🇵 Himeji 9.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 13.2% 260 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Nagasaki 13.3%🇩🇪 Paderborn 13.3%🇧🇷 Araraquara 13.2%🇯🇵 Beppu 13.2%Osaka🇩🇪 Remscheid 13.1%🇵🇹 Barreiro 13%🇩🇪 Hagen 13%🇩🇪 Oldenburg 13%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7.4% 157 of 1,878 🇲🇦 Essaouira 7.4%🇨🇦 Hamilton 7.4%🇨🇳 Harbin 7.4%🇺🇸 Huntington Station 7.4%Osaka🇲🇾 Rawang 7.4%🇦🇷 Santa Fe 7.4%🇬🇪 Tbilisi 7.4%🇷🇺 Astrakhan 7.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.6% 23 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Bataysk 97.6%🇮🇳 Coimbatore 97.6%🇬🇧 Liverpool 97.6%🇺🇸 Mission Viejo 97.6%Osaka🇹🇷 Yalova 97.6%🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 97.6%🇺🇸 Columbus 97.5%🇿🇦 Diepsloot 97.5%

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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