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
🇺🇸 United States · metro 2.1M · 7,477 venues mapped

Seattle

Where Seattle 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 64 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Seattle in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇺🇸 Auburn 34 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Vancouver 📖 192 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, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink7,477 places mapped
10:45–21:00
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9%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
Shops & errands1,745 places mapped
07:00–22:30
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
18%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
170
umbrella days a year
57.1 m
of rain since 1981
138
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
1
volcanoes within 100 km
94.2 km
to Rainier
3
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:20
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,880
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSeattle RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.2% 208 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Linz 9.2%🇺🇸 Lynn 9.2%🇯🇵 Nagoya 9.2%🇨🇿 Pilsen 9.2%Seattle🇷🇺 Voronezh 9.2%🇭🇷 Zadar 9.2%🇵🇹 Évora 9.2%🇫🇷 Ajaccio 9.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Rybnik 70 h🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 70 h🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo 70 h🇸🇻 Santa Ana 70 hSeattle🇧🇷 São Paulo 70 h🇨🇭 Thun 70 h🇳🇮 Tipitapa 70 h🇵🇱 Toruń 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 22.9% 246 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Anchorage 22.9%🇺🇸 Appleton 22.9%🇮🇹 Pavia 22.9%🇳🇿 Rotorua 22.9%Seattle🇮🇹 Treviso 22.9%🇲🇲 Sagaing 22.8%🇮🇳 Alappuzha 22.7%🇿🇼 Harare 22.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.9% 355 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Puducherry 2.9%🇺🇸 Rapid City 2.9%🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 2.9%🇺🇸 San Diego 2.9%Seattle🇮🇷 Shiraz 2.9%🇺🇸 Washington 2.9%🇨🇦 Winnipeg 2.9%🇬🇧 East Kilbride 2.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.2% 209 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Maceió 2.2%🇮🇹 Mestre 2.2%🇺🇸 Missoula 2.2%🇺🇸 Mount Vernon 2.2%Seattle🇫🇮 Tampere 2.2%🇺🇸 Waukegan 2.2%🇺🇸 Wichita 2.2%🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 2.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.5% 64 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Margate 93.5%🇲🇽 Monterrey 93.5%🇺🇸 Murfreesboro 93.5%🇬🇧 Redditch 93.5%Seattle🇮🇷 Tabriz 93.5%🇷🇺 Vladikavkaz 93.5%🇱🇹 Klaipėda 93.4%🇧🇷 Araraquara 93.3%

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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