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
🇷🇺 Russia · metro 1.2M · 559 venues mapped

Samara

Where Samara 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 9 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 171 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇪 Tbilisi 📖 1,340 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, Jul, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands639 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Food & drink559 places mapped
10:00–23:00
0006121824
19%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
116
umbrella days a year
23.1 m
of rain since 1981
1,004
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1233.2 km
to Elbrus
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:24
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
11,386
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSamara RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 19% 112 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Charleston 19.1%🇧🇷 Nova Lima 19.1%🇵🇹 Amora 19%🇪🇸 Bilbao 19%Samara🇪🇸 Santa Pola 19%🇪🇸 Barcelona 18.9%🇷🇺 Kaliningrad 18.9%🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 18.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Saint John 84 h🇺🇸 Salem 84 h🇺🇸 Salinas 84 h🇦🇷 Salta 84 hSamara🇸🇻 San Salvador 84 h🇨🇺 Santa Clara 84 h🇦🇷 Santa Fe 84 h🇺🇸 Santa Rosa 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.2% 370 of 1,878 🇧🇷 São Carlos 10.3%🇬🇧 Leeds 10.2%🇩🇪 Passau 10.2%🇨🇱 Penco 10.2%Samara🇷🇺 Saratov 10.2%🇰🇿 Almaty 10.1%🇨🇳 Beijing 10.1%🇱🇧 Beirut 10.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.7% 377 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Levittown 0.7%🇺🇸 New Bedford 0.7%🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen 0.7%🇲🇪 Podgorica 0.7%Samara🇺🇸 Sioux Falls 0.7%🇭🇺 Székesfehérvár 0.7%🇺🇸 Turlock 0.7%🇷🇺 Voronezh 0.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4% 191 of 1,878 🇱🇹 Kaunas 4%🇺🇸 Lynn 4%🇯🇵 Nagano 4%🇺🇸 New York City 4%Samara🇺🇸 Stockton 4%🇦🇺 Toowoomba 4%🇭🇰 Tuen Mun 4%🇺🇸 Worcester 4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 99% 9 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg 99.1%🇦🇿 Baku 99%🇹🇼 Hsinchu 99%🇷🇺 Odintsovo 99%Samara🇯🇵 Sapporo 99%🇷🇺 Vyborg 99%🇯🇵 Akita 98.9%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 98.9%

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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