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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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.
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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇧🇷 Brazil · metro 3.8M · 1,719 venues mapped

Recife

Where Recife 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 🇧🇷 João Pessoa 104 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇷 São Paulo 📖 2,130 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands1,878 places mapped
08:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
54%
open on Sundays
81h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Food & drink1,719 places mapped
11:00–22:00
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
339
muggy days a year
87
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
218
umbrella days a year
66.8 m
of rain since 1981
6,333
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1893.8 km
to Romanche Fracture Zone
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:10
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.6 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
14,590
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureRecife RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.2% 238 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Iizuka 6.2%🇮🇳 Kasaragod 6.2%🇯🇵 Kochi 6.2%🇮🇹 Lucca 6.2%Recife🇧🇪 Roeselare 6.2%🇵🇱 Rybnik 6.2%🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 6.2%🇺🇸 Spokane Valley 6.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇺🇾 Montevideo 63 h🇳🇴 Oslo 63 h🇨🇦 Peterborough 63 h🇩🇪 Potsdam 63 hRecife🇨🇴 Riohacha 63 h🇪🇸 San Fernando 63 h🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 63 h🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.4% 418 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 5.5%🇳🇱 Amsterdam 5.4%🇦🇹 Bregenz 5.4%🇩🇪 Flensburg 5.4%Recife🇫🇷 Strasbourg 5.4%🇸🇪 Södertälje 5.4%🇧🇪 Temse 5.4%🇩🇪 Ulm 5.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.7% 357 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Layton 2.7%🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 2.7%🇺🇸 Montgomery 2.7%🇺🇸 Naples 2.7%Recife🇺🇸 Wichita Falls 2.7%🇸🇰 Bratislava 2.6%🇸🇪 Helsingborg 2.6%🇵🇪 Huaraz 2.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.6% 195 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Los Angeles 3.6%🇯🇵 Osaki 3.6%🇨🇿 Ostrava 3.6%🇸🇷 Paramaribo 3.6%Recife🇨🇴 Rionegro 3.6%🇬🇧 Royal Tunbridge Wells 3.6%🇺🇸 Simi Valley 3.6%🇵🇱 Tychy 3.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 53.9% 353 of 1,704 🇨🇴 Pasto 54.5%🇫🇷 Périgueux 54.5%🇸🇰 Trenčín 54.4%🇵🇱 Lodz 54.3%Recife🇮🇹 Trieste 53.8%🇫🇷 Albi 53.7%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 53.7%🇪🇸 Barcelona 53.6%

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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