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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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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.

Read the method →
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
🇹🇭 Thailand · metro 188k · 297 venues mapped

Phitsanulok

Where Phitsanulok 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 30 of 1,704.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 257 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, 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 & drink297 places mapped
09:00–20:00
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3%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
67h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands152 places mapped
00:00–24:00
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0%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
62%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
229
muggy days a year
109
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
166
umbrella days a year
56.4 m
of rain since 1981
13,247
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
696.3 km
to Popa
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:51
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.1 h
longest day of the year
29
public holidays, 2024
5,673
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePhitsanulok RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.8% 272 of 1,878 🇭🇳 La Lima 2.8%🇩🇪 Lübeck 2.8%🇧🇦 Mostar 2.8%🇩🇪 Pforzheim 2.8%Phitsanulok🇩🇪 Potsdam 2.8%🇿🇦 Pretoria 2.8%🇩🇪 Rostock 2.8%🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 2.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 66.8 h 153 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne 67 h🇦🇹 Villach 67 h🇬🇮 Gibraltar 66.8 h🇮🇪 Limerick 66.8 hPhitsanulok🇦🇷 Cordoba 66.6 h🇬🇧 Hereford 66.5 h🇧🇷 Lago Norte 66.5 h🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 66.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.1% 291 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Rawang 18.2%🇨🇴 Rionegro 18.2%🇨🇦 Saskatoon 18.2%🇨🇦 Calgary 18.1%Phitsanulok🇷🇴 Râmnicu Vâlcea 18.1%🇮🇹 La Spezia 18%🇦🇴 Luanda 18%🇮🇹 Pistoia 18%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.4% 370 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Odintsovo 1.4%🇨🇿 Olomouc 1.4%🇺🇸 Omaha 1.4%🇺🇸 Philadelphia 1.4%Phitsanulok🇺🇸 Piscataway 1.4%🇸🇰 Poprad 1.4%🇮🇷 Rasht 1.4%🇺🇸 Schenectady 1.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.8% 203 of 1,878 🇨🇿 Liberec 2.8%🇲🇽 Mexico City 2.8%🇧🇦 Mostar 2.8%🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 2.8%Phitsanulok🇵🇾 Presidente Franco 2.8%🇬🇧 Reading 2.8%🇺🇸 Salem 2.8%🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 2.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.9% 30 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Concord 96.9%🇺🇸 Conway 96.9%🇯🇵 Fujieda 96.9%🇯🇵 Matsuyama 96.9%Phitsanulok🇺🇸 Santa Clarita 96.9%🇺🇸 Auburn 96.8%🇺🇸 Chester 96.8%🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 96.8%

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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