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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The index

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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇺🇸 United States · metro 61k · 222 venues mapped

Pharr

Where Pharr 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 McAllen 5 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Austin 📖 455 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 & drink222 places mapped
07:00–23:00
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Shops & errands59 places mapped
06:00–24:00
0006121824
14%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
119h
open per week
38%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
179
muggy days a year
83
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
84
umbrella days a year
28.1 m
of rain since 1981
10,311
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
670.2 km
to Durango Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:46
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.8 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
16,659
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePharr RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.8% 222 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Helsingborg 7.8%🇺🇸 Johnson City 7.8%🇺🇸 Logan 7.8%🇺🇸 Norcross 7.8%Pharr🇧🇷 Salvador 7.8%🇱🇾 Tripoli 7.8%🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 7.8%🇨🇦 Victoria 7.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 105 h 18 of 1,878 🇵🇰 Karachi 105 h🇺🇸 Longview 105 h🇧🇦 Mostar 105 h🇺🇸 New Haven 105 hPharr🇲🇦 Rabat 105 h🇸🇦 Riyadh 105 h🇦🇱 Shkoder 105 h🇱🇧 Sidon 105 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 52.9% 26 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Texarkana 53.4%🇺🇸 Troy 53.4%🇺🇸 Spring Valley 53.3%🇺🇸 Bakersfield 52.9%Pharr🇧🇦 Mostar 52.8%🇺🇸 Rochester 52.8%🇺🇸 Greenville 52.7%🇺🇸 Schenectady 52.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Pattaya 0%🇮🇳 Payyanur 0%🇰🇿 Petropavl 0%🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 0%Pharr🇹🇭 Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya 0%🇷🇴 Ploiești 0%🇧🇬 Plovdiv 0%🇨🇬 Pointe-Noire 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.9% 172 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Hamilton 5.9%🇲🇾 Kuching 5.9%🇧🇷 Manaus 5.9%🇺🇸 Mesa 5.9%Pharr🇷🇴 Ploiești 5.9%🇨🇱 Rancagua 5.9%🇰🇷 Wonju 5.9%🇷🇺 Abakan 5.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Palmdale 100%🇨🇴 Palmira 100%🇺🇸 Panama City 100%🇮🇩 Pekanbaru 100%Pharr🇹🇭 Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya 100%🇹🇯 Proletar 100%🇨🇾 Protaras 100%🇲🇾 Putrajaya 100%

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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