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.

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
🇩🇪 Germany · metro 174k · 2,340 venues mapped

Potsdam

Where Potsdam places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 167 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇩🇪 Berlin 📖 27 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink2,340 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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3%
open past midnight
77%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
Shops & errands1,109 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
26%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Culture572 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
34%
open on Sundays
32h
open per week
Services364 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
4%
open on Sundays
55h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
127
umbrella days a year
27.4 m
of rain since 1981
527
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
498 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:56
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.8 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,596
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePotsdam RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.8% 272 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Lübeck 2.8%🇧🇦 Mostar 2.8%🇩🇪 Pforzheim 2.8%🇹🇭 Phitsanulok 2.8%Potsdam🇿🇦 Pretoria 2.8%🇩🇪 Rostock 2.8%🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 2.8%🇫🇷 Belfort 2.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇹🇼 Miaoli 63 h🇺🇾 Montevideo 63 h🇳🇴 Oslo 63 h🇨🇦 Peterborough 63 hPotsdam🇧🇷 Recife 63 h🇨🇴 Riohacha 63 h🇪🇸 San Fernando 63 h🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.2% 410 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Izmir 6.2%🇮🇳 Kasaragod 6.2%🇨🇴 Palmira 6.2%🇫🇷 Pau 6.2%Potsdam🇵🇹 Tavira 6.2%🇷🇺 Tver 6.2%🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 6.2%🇵🇱 Świdnica 6.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.1% 363 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Dordrecht 2.1%🇺🇸 Fargo 2.1%🇨🇦 Guelph 2.1%🇺🇸 Olathe 2.1%Potsdam🇮🇩 Surakarta 2.1%🇲🇦 Tangier 2.1%🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 2.1%🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.3% 228 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Gerlingen 0.3%🇩🇪 Heidelberg 0.3%🇱🇺 Luxembourg 0.3%🇫🇷 Maurepas 0.3%Potsdam🇩🇪 Reutlingen 0.3%🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 0.3%🇫🇷 Toulon 0.3%🇩🇪 Ulm 0.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 25.6% 475 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Essen 26.2%🇳🇴 Trondheim 26%🇩🇪 Munich 25.9%🇩🇪 Stuttgart 25.8%Potsdam🇨🇭 Solothurn 25.6%🇨🇭 Lugano 25.5%🇪🇸 Nerja 25%🇪🇸 Toledo 25%

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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