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
🇯🇵 Japan · metro 1.9M · 2,943 venues mapped

Sapporo

Where Sapporo 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 🇯🇵 Otaru 31 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Tokyo 📖 833 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Sapporo does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink2,943 places mapped
11:00–22:30
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13%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
7%
open 24/7
Shops & errands2,237 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
5%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
61%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
17
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
195
umbrella days a year
55.8 m
of rain since 1981
84
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
5
volcanoes within 100 km
42.2 km
to Shikotsu
27.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:03
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
8,737
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSapporo RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.7% 173 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Huntington 12.7%🇬🇪 Kutaisi 12.7%🇵🇹 Lagos 12.7%🇺🇸 Omaha 12.7%Sapporo🇵🇹 Almada 12.6%🇺🇸 Atlanta 12.6%🇬🇧 Bridgend 12.6%🇳🇱 Hoofddorp 12.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Rionegro 77 h🇺🇸 Salt Lake City 77 h🇺🇸 San Diego 77 h🇧🇿 San Pedro 77 hSapporo🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs 77 h🇨🇦 Sherbrooke 77 h🇯🇵 Shibata 77 h🇺🇸 Simi Valley 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.8% 354 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Inverness 11.8%🇬🇷 Ioannina 11.8%🇬🇧 Mansfield 11.8%🇫🇷 Marignane 11.8%Sapporo🇪🇸 Segovia 11.8%🇨🇭 Winterthur 11.8%🇨🇲 Yaoundé 11.8%🇨🇦 Kitchener 11.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 9.5% 290 of 1,878 🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 9.8%🇬🇧 Oxford 9.6%🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 9.6%🇬🇧 Ashford 9.5%Sapporo🇭🇰 Tsuen Wan 9.5%🇮🇹 Viareggio 9.5%🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 9.4%🇧🇷 Fortaleza 9.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 7% 161 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kumamoto 7%🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 7%🇰🇪 Ngong 7%🇮🇹 San Giuseppe Vesuviano 7%Sapporo🇧🇷 Boa Vista 6.9%🇬🇧 Coventry 6.9%🇵🇱 Częstochowa 6.9%🇹🇷 Eskisehir 6.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 99% 9 of 1,704 🇦🇿 Baku 99%🇹🇼 Hsinchu 99%🇷🇺 Odintsovo 99%🇷🇺 Samara 99%Sapporo🇷🇺 Vyborg 99%🇯🇵 Akita 98.9%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 98.9%🇺🇸 Dunwoody 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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