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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🇭🇹 Haiti · metro 1.7M · 417 venues mapped

Port-au-Prince

Where Port-au-Prince 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 99 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 258 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Miami 📖 1,140 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 — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands1,915 places mapped
06:30–21:30
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0%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
44%
open 24/7
Food & drink417 places mapped
08:00–22:30
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7%
open past midnight
67%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
13%
open 24/7
Services409 places mapped
08:30–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
50%
open on Sundays
58h
open per week
32%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
255
muggy days a year
191
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
134
umbrella days a year
23.7 m
of rain since 1981
12,606
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
968 km
to Saba
14
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:18
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.2 h
longest day of the year
16
public holidays, 2024
18,313
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePort-au-Prince RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.7% 233 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Nagasaki 6.7%🇬🇧 Newbury 6.7%🇺🇸 Olathe 6.7%🇦🇺 Point Cook 6.7%Port-au-Prince🇺🇸 Tacoma 6.7%🇹🇷 Trabzon 6.7%🇵🇭 Dumaguete 6.6%🇲🇾 George Town 6.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 72.5 h 131 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Udon Thani 72.8 h🇨🇿 Liberec 72.5 h🇵🇪 Lima 72.5 h🇨🇭 Lugano 72.5 hPort-au-Prince🇬🇧 St Albans 72.5 h🇬🇧 Telford 72.5 h🇦🇺 Wollongong 72.2 h🇬🇭 Accra 72 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 20% 273 of 1,878 🇧🇭 Manama 20%🇩🇿 Meftah 20%🇲🇽 Mexicali 20%🇹🇷 Nevşehir 20%Port-au-Prince🇵🇭 Tarlac City 20%🇧🇪 Tournai 20%🇪🇸 Valdemoro 20%🇨🇳 Wuhan 20%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 10% 287 of 1,878 🇬🇮 Gibraltar 10%🇬🇧 Ipswich 10%🇯🇵 Kishiwada 10%🇩🇪 Lüneburg 10%Port-au-Prince🇰🇷 Seogwipo 10%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 10%🇳🇿 Auckland 9.8%🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 9.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 13.3% 99 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Orenburg 13.6%🇪🇹 Addis Ababa 13.5%🇺🇸 Bayonet Point 13.5%🇦🇷 Cipolletti 13.3%Port-au-Prince🇱🇧 Sidon 13.3%🇵🇭 Tarlac City 13.3%🇮🇳 Varanasi 13.3%🇺🇦 Kharkiv 13.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 81.2% 170 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Varese 81.5%🇮🇹 Livorno 81.4%🇧🇬 Plovdiv 81.3%🇧🇷 Goiânia 81.2%Port-au-Prince🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 81.2%🇧🇷 São Carlos 81.2%🇫🇷 Cergy 81.1%🇨🇦 Sherwood Park 81.1%

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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