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.

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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
🇮🇳 India · metro 1.1M · 586 venues mapped

Puducherry

Where Puducherry 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 82 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇳 Chennai 137 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 2,189 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
Food & drink586 places mapped
09:30–22:00
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
7%
open 24/7
Shops & errands87 places mapped
08:00–21:30
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
344
muggy days a year
279
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
174
umbrella days a year
50.7 m
of rain since 1981
9,597
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1525.5 km
to Barren Island
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:52
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.8 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
6,206
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePuducherry RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.8% 242 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Livingston 5.8%🇯🇵 Nagano 5.8%🇭🇺 Nyíregyháza 5.8%🇵🇱 Przemyśl 5.8%Puducherry🇺🇸 Reading 5.8%🇧🇦 Sarajevo 5.8%🇺🇸 The Woodlands 5.8%🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 5.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh 84 h🇷🇴 Ploiești 84 h🇧🇬 Plovdiv 84 h🇺🇦 Poltava 84 hPuducherry🇮🇳 Pune 84 h🇲🇲 Pyin Oo Lwin 84 h🇮🇩 Rangkasbitung 84 h🇺🇸 Redlands 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 16.3% 309 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Charleston 16.3%🇦🇪 Dubai 16.3%🇬🇧 Gillingham 16.3%🇮🇹 Matera 16.3%Puducherry🇪🇨 Riobamba 16.3%🇨🇦 Sherbrooke 16.3%🇭🇺 Székesfehérvár 16.3%🇲🇽 Tulum 16.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.9% 355 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Mansfield 2.9%🇨🇦 Montreal 2.9%🇷🇺 Murmansk 2.9%🇺🇸 Palm Bay 2.9%Puducherry🇺🇸 Rapid City 2.9%🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 2.9%🇺🇸 San Diego 2.9%🇺🇸 Seattle 2.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.7% 164 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Livingston 6.7%🇺🇸 Murfreesboro 6.7%🇺🇸 New Orleans 6.7%🇬🇧 Nottingham 6.7%Puducherry🇲🇲 Pyin Oo Lwin 6.7%🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 6.7%🇭🇺 Székesfehérvár 6.7%🇹🇷 Trabzon 6.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 76.2% 208 of 1,704 🇳🇱 Breda 76.2%🇨🇴 Chía 76.2%🇮🇹 Gallarate 76.2%🇮🇹 Massa 76.2%Puducherry🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 76.2%🇮🇹 Vercelli 76.1%🇦🇷 Mar del Plata 76%🇧🇷 Belém 75.6%

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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