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
Tools

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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.
How this is made

Every figure on this site states where it came from and what it cannot tell you.

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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
🇦🇺 Australia · metro 1.4M · 3,642 venues mapped

Perth

Where Perth 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 89 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Perth in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇦🇺 Adelaide 2,131 km Nearest written profile 🇦🇺 Melbourne 📖 2,721 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Oct, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink3,642 places mapped
10:00–21:00
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
7%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,213 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
80h
open per week
14%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
3
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
78
umbrella days a year
31.6 m
of rain since 1981
1,075
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2505.6 km
to Newer Volcanics Province
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:19
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.2 h
longest day of the year
7
public holidays, 2024
0
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePerth RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3% 270 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 3%🇩🇰 Esbjerg 3%🇬🇧 Liverpool 3%🇺🇸 Norristown 3%Perth🇬🇹 Totonicapán 3%🇵🇹 Albufeira 2.9%🇺🇿 Bukhara 2.9%🇭🇺 Debrecen 2.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 60.2 h 180 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Luton 60.8 h🇳🇱 Zwolle 60.8 h🇩🇪 Lübeck 60.5 h🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 60.5 hPerth🇩🇪 Aachen 60 h🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 60 h🇮🇹 Bari 60 h🇧🇷 Belém 60 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 31.5% 170 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Little Elm 31.7%🇨🇳 Shanghai 31.7%🇵🇪 Huaraz 31.6%🇺🇸 Pittsburgh 31.6%Perth🇻🇳 Phú Quốc 31.5%🇭🇷 Rijeka 31.5%🇲🇾 Miri 31.4%🇧🇦 Sarajevo 31.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 8% 304 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Bury St Edmunds 8.1%🇦🇺 Gold Coast 8.1%🇦🇺 Sydney 8.1%🇬🇧 Grimsby 8%Perth🇦🇺 Toowoomba 8%🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 8%🇬🇧 Hastings 7.9%🇨🇳 Nanjing 7.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7.3% 158 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Rawang 7.4%🇦🇷 Santa Fe 7.4%🇬🇪 Tbilisi 7.4%🇷🇺 Astrakhan 7.3%Perth🇨🇦 Winnipeg 7.3%🇷🇺 Barnaul 7.2%🇺🇸 Baton Rouge 7.2%🇺🇦 Dnipro 7.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 90.8% 89 of 1,704 🇳🇪 Niamey 90.9%🇮🇪 Swords 90.9%🇬🇧 Belfast 90.8%🇺🇸 Lansing 90.8%Perth🇮🇸 Reykjavik 90.8%🇮🇪 Dublin 90.7%🇸🇪 Karlstad 90.7%🇸🇻 Cojutepeque 90.6%

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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