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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Western Europe20
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North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇪🇨 Ecuador · metro 2.6M · 582 venues mapped

Quito

Where Quito 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 55 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇨 Otavalo 59 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇴 Medellín 📖 791 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands591 places mapped
07:30–20:38
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3%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
88h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Food & drink582 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
11%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
55h
open per week
20%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
240
umbrella days a year
62.1 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
15
volcanoes within 100 km
10.4 km
to Guagua Pichincha
14.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:18
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.1 h
longest day of the year
16
public holidays, 2024
16,130
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureQuito RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.4% 186 of 1,878 🇮🇶 Karbala 11.4%🇺🇸 Lacey 11.4%🇷🇺 Novorossiysk 11.4%🇨🇦 Pickering 11.4%Quito🇲🇾 Rawang 11.4%🇺🇦 Rivne 11.4%🇫🇷 Tours 11.4%🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 11.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 55 h 203 of 1,878 🇫🇮 Joensuu 55 h🇳🇱 Leiden 55 h🇬🇧 Margate 55 h🇩🇪 Münster 55 hQuito🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 55 h🇩🇪 Bensheim 54.8 h🇨🇭 Wettingen 54.8 h🇫🇷 Belfort 54.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 2.9% 443 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Breda 2.9%🇩🇪 Hildesheim 2.9%🇯🇵 Kishiwada 2.9%🇷🇴 Ploiești 2.9%Quito🇨🇱 Rancagua 2.9%🇳🇴 Stavanger 2.9%🇩🇪 Unna 2.9%🇷🇺 Vyborg 2.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Puyallup 0%🇪🇨 Puyo 0%🇷🇺 Pyatigorsk 0%🇲🇲 Pyin Oo Lwin 0%Quito🇺🇸 Racine 0%🇵🇱 Radom 0%🇨🇱 Rancagua 0%🇮🇩 Rangkasbitung 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 20% 55 of 1,878 🇺🇿 Bukhara 20%🇰🇷 Chuncheon 20%🇨🇳 Hefei 20%🇮🇩 Malang 20%Quito🇨🇺 Varadero 20%🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 19.7%🇦🇴 Lubango 19.5%🇮🇳 Indore 19.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 87.5% 118 of 1,704 🇧🇷 Chapecó 87.5%🇺🇸 Chattanooga 87.5%🇧🇩 Chattogram 87.5%🇺🇸 Cookeville 87.5%Quito🇦🇷 Santa Fe 87.5%🇮🇹 Siena 87.5%🇵🇪 Trujillo 87.5%🇮🇪 Waterford 87.5%

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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