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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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.
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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
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Western Europe20
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North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇨🇴 Colombia · metro 352k · 223 venues mapped

Pasto

Where Pasto 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 136 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇨 Tulcán 66 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇴 Medellín 📖 591 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Pasto 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 & drink223 places mapped
09:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
10%
open 24/7
Shops & errands183 places mapped
08:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
55%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
225
umbrella days a year
51 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
6
volcanoes within 100 km
10.2 km
to Galeras
5
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:09
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.2 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
16,330
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePasto RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 0% 296 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Nanchang 0%🇩🇪 Neumünster 0%🇳🇨 Nouméa 0%🇮🇩 Palembang 0%Pasto🇮🇳 Payyanur 0%🇮🇳 Ponnani 0%🇹🇯 Proletar 0%🇲🇲 Pyin Oo Lwin 0%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Málaga 70 h🇵🇱 Olsztyn 70 h🇨🇦 Ottawa 70 h🇵🇱 Pabianice 70 hPasto🇹🇭 Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya 70 h🇵🇹 Ponta Delgada 70 h🇵🇾 Presidente Franco 70 h🇸🇰 Prešov 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 4.8% 424 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Gniezno 4.8%🇪🇨 Latacunga 4.8%🇺🇦 Lutsk 4.8%🇩🇪 Osnabrück 4.8%Pasto🇵🇱 Poznan 4.8%🇺🇦 Rivne 4.8%🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 4.8%🇩🇪 Stralsund 4.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Oxford 0%🇮🇩 Palembang 0%🇺🇸 Palmdale 0%🇨🇴 Palmira 0%Pasto🇹🇭 Pattaya 0%🇮🇳 Payyanur 0%🇰🇿 Petropavl 0%🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 9.5% 136 of 1,878 🇺🇿 Tashkent 9.6%🇲🇾 Alor Setar 9.5%🇯🇵 Fuji 9.5%🇹🇿 Mwanza 9.5%Pasto🇨🇳 Suzhou 9.5%🇮🇳 Jaipur 9.4%🇮🇳 Lucknow 9.4%🇷🇺 Penza 9.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 54.5% 350 of 1,704 🇵🇱 Tychy 55%🇵🇱 Lublin 54.9%🇧🇪 Frameries 54.8%🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 54.7%Pasto🇫🇷 Périgueux 54.5%🇸🇰 Trenčín 54.4%🇵🇱 Lodz 54.3%🇧🇷 Recife 53.9%

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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