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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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
🇨🇦 Canada · metro 605k · 2,422 venues mapped

Ottawa

Where Ottawa 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 49 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 130 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Montreal 📖 165 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Ottawa 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 & drink2,422 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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12%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands632 places mapped
08:00–21:30
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1%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
15%
open 24/7
Services415 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
38%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
Culture252 places mapped
10:00–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
41%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
9
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
151
umbrella days a year
44.1 m
of rain since 1981
250
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2627.9 km
to Dotsero
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:23
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.7 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,217
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureOttawa RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.5% 175 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Logroño 12.5%🇻🇪 Maracaibo 12.5%🇯🇵 Matsumoto 12.5%🇨🇦 Milton 12.5%Ottawa🇨🇴 Palmira 12.5%🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 12.5%🇲🇽 Puebla 12.5%🇺🇸 Riverside 12.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Montreal 70 h🇯🇵 Muroran 70 h🇪🇸 Málaga 70 h🇵🇱 Olsztyn 70 hOttawa🇵🇱 Pabianice 70 h🇨🇴 Pasto 70 h🇹🇭 Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya 70 h🇵🇹 Ponta Delgada 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 20.4% 270 of 1,878 🇬🇧 London 20.5%🇨🇴 Riohacha 20.5%🇸🇰 Banská Bystrica 20.4%🇯🇵 Kisarazu 20.4%Ottawa🇺🇸 San Francisco 20.4%🇬🇧 Camberley 20.3%🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 20.3%🇬🇧 Lincoln 20.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.2% 362 of 1,878 🇱🇹 Kaunas 2.2%🇺🇸 Milwaukee 2.2%🇷🇺 Moscow 2.2%🇺🇸 New York City 2.2%Ottawa🇺🇸 Rochester 2.2%🇺🇸 Salinas 2.2%🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 2.2%🇭🇺 Sopron 2.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.7% 194 of 1,878 🇲🇴 Macau 3.7%🇺🇸 Mission Viejo 3.7%🇺🇸 Modesto 3.7%🇷🇺 Omsk 3.7%Ottawa🇻🇳 Phú Quốc 3.7%🇱🇻 Riga 3.7%🇬🇧 Salisbury 3.7%🇨🇳 Shanghai 3.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95% 49 of 1,704 🇨🇦 Kelowna 95%🇮🇪 Kilkenny 95%🇮🇳 Mumbai 95%🇻🇳 Nha Trang 95%Ottawa🇵🇭 Tacloban 95%🇮🇳 Talegaon Dabhade 95%🇮🇷 Tehran 95%🇹🇭 Ubon Ratchathani 95%

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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