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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🇰🇭 Cambodia · metro 2.4M · 2,697 venues mapped

Phnom Penh

Where Phnom Penh 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 36 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇰🇭 Kampot 133 km Nearest written profile 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 📖 204 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Phnom Penh 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 & drink2,697 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands590 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
5%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
100h
open per week
32%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
300
muggy days a year
131
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
169
umbrella days a year
60.9 m
of rain since 1981
13,022
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
474 km
to Cendres, Ile des
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:42
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.8 h
longest day of the year
23
public holidays, 2024
4,977
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePhnom Penh RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9% 210 of 1,878 🇺🇸 McAllen 9%🇺🇸 Mesa 9%🇵🇱 Pabianice 9%🇮🇹 Perugia 9%Phnom Penh🇩🇪 Reutlingen 9%🇺🇸 Southgate 9%🇺🇸 Turlock 9%🇫🇷 Valence 9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇱🇦 Pakse 84 h🇷🇺 Penza 84 h🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 84 h🇻🇳 Phan Thiết 84 hPhnom Penh🇺🇸 Pittsburgh 84 h🇷🇴 Ploiești 84 h🇧🇬 Plovdiv 84 h🇺🇦 Poltava 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 36.4% 125 of 1,878 🇺🇸 White Plains 36.7%🇹🇬 Lomé 36.5%🇺🇸 Waco 36.5%🇺🇸 Bridgeport 36.4%Phnom Penh🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 36.3%🇺🇸 Dallas 36.3%🇬🇧 Coventry 36.2%🇮🇹 Asti 36.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.9% 365 of 1,878 🇸🇦 Jeddah 1.9%🇰🇭 Kampot 1.9%🇺🇸 Lancaster 1.9%🇧🇷 Natal 1.9%Phnom Penh🇨🇦 Pickering 1.9%🇺🇸 Rockford 1.9%🇧🇩 Savar 1.9%🇸🇪 Stockholm 1.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 8.5% 146 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Saint Joseph 8.6%🇬🇧 Hinckley 8.5%🇷🇺 Moscow 8.5%🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 8.5%Phnom Penh🇮🇩 Yogyakarta 8.5%🇨🇴 Medellín 8.4%🇺🇸 Tuscaloosa 8.4%🇷🇺 Bataysk 8.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.3% 36 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 96.3%🇮🇩 Jakarta 96.3%🇯🇲 Kingston 96.3%🇮🇩 Makassar 96.3%Phnom Penh🇺🇸 Sarasota 96.3%🇺🇸 Stamford 96.3%🇲🇽 Zapopan 96.3%🇬🇧 Folkestone 96.2%

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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