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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🇲🇲 Myanmar · metro 171k · 828 venues mapped

Sagaing

Where Sagaing places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 67 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇲🇲 Pyin Oo Lwin 52 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 465 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, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink828 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands171 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
32%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
155
muggy days a year
84
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
127
umbrella days a year
11.6 m
of rain since 1981
14,783
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
130.7 km
to Popa
7
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:28
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.5 h
longest day of the year
29
public holidays, 2024
6,349
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSagaing RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.3% 287 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Celle 1.3%🇩🇪 Gera 1.3%🇿🇦 Johannesburg 1.3%🇳🇵 Pokhara 1.3%Sagaing🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 1.3%🇧🇷 Vitória 1.3%🇵🇱 Świdnica 1.3%🇬🇧 Bury St Edmunds 1.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇭🇷 Rijeka 84 h🇺🇦 Rivne 84 h🇺🇸 Rochester 84 h🇷🇺 Ryazan 84 hSagaing🇨🇦 Saint John 84 h🇺🇸 Salem 84 h🇺🇸 Salinas 84 h🇦🇷 Salta 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 22.8% 247 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Pavia 22.9%🇳🇿 Rotorua 22.9%🇺🇸 Seattle 22.9%🇮🇹 Treviso 22.9%Sagaing🇮🇳 Alappuzha 22.7%🇿🇼 Harare 22.7%🇨🇦 Quebec 22.7%🇻🇳 Thái Nguyên 22.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.5% 359 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Dumaguete 2.5%🇬🇧 Plymouth 2.5%🇮🇳 Ponnani 2.5%🇮🇸 Reykjavik 2.5%Sagaing🇮🇷 Tehran 2.5%🇬🇧 Warrington 2.5%🇳🇱 Alkmaar 2.4%🇳🇱 Amersfoort 2.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7.6% 155 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Constanța 7.6%🇬🇦 Libreville 7.6%🇺🇸 Memphis 7.6%🇯🇵 Narita 7.6%Sagaing🇧🇷 Curitiba 7.5%🇰🇿 Petropavl 7.5%🇲🇽 Puebla 7.5%🇮🇷 Tabriz 7.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.2% 67 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Ipswich 93.2%🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 93.2%🇬🇧 Lancaster 93.2%🇨🇦 Montreal 93.2%Sagaing🇯🇵 Takaoka 93.2%🇵🇭 Tarlac City 93.2%🇱🇦 Vientiane 93.2%🇻🇳 Đà Nẵng 93.2%

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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