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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🇮🇩 Indonesia · metro 2.2M · 312 venues mapped

Palembang

Where Palembang places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is never close at all, where it ranks 6 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇩 Rangkasbitung 417 km Nearest written profile 🇸🇬 Singapore 📖 478 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Palembang 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 & drink312 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
47%
open 24/7
Shops & errands149 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
18%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
365
muggy days a year
20
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
247
umbrella days a year
107.7 m
of rain since 1981
7,370
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
217.9 km
to Dempo
1
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:01
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.3 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
3,431
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePalembang RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 0% 296 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Mysuru 0%🇨🇳 Nanchang 0%🇩🇪 Neumünster 0%🇳🇨 Nouméa 0%Palembang🇨🇴 Pasto 0%🇮🇳 Payyanur 0%🇮🇳 Ponnani 0%🇹🇯 Proletar 0%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Odesa 91 h🇺🇸 Odessa 91 h🇺🇸 Oklahoma City 91 h🇺🇸 Omaha 91 hPalembang🇰🇿 Petropavl 91 h🇻🇳 Phú Quốc 91 h🇷🇺 Podolsk 91 h🇿🇦 Pretoria 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 17.6% 296 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Aylesbury 17.6%🇮🇹 Barletta 17.6%🇬🇧 Blackpool 17.6%🇯🇵 Miyazaki 17.6%Palembang🇮🇹 Riccione 17.6%🇬🇧 Southampton 17.6%🇮🇩 Watampone 17.6%🇬🇧 Barnsley 17.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇪🇨 Otavalo 0%🇧🇫 Ouagadougou 0%🇫🇮 Oulu 0%🇺🇸 Oxford 0%Palembang🇺🇸 Palmdale 0%🇨🇴 Palmira 0%🇨🇴 Pasto 0%🇹🇭 Pattaya 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 47.1% 6 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Watampone 64.7%🇲🇾 Seremban 63.4%🇪🇬 Alexandria 61.3%🇮🇳 Kasaragod 50%Palembang🇵🇭 Apalit 45%🇲🇱 Bamako 42.3%🇮🇶 Al Hillah 40.7%🇮🇶 Karbala 40%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94.1% 58 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Banbury 94.1%🇬🇧 Carlisle 94.1%🇲🇦 Casablanca 94.1%🇬🇧 Crawley 94.1%Palembang🇺🇸 Pueblo 94.1%🇺🇸 State College 94.1%🇳🇮 Tipitapa 94.1%🇺🇸 Charlottesville 94%

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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