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
🇮🇩 Indonesia · metro 3.3M · 604 venues mapped

Semarang

Where Semarang 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 82 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇮🇩 Surakarta 77 km Nearest written profile 🇸🇬 Singapore 📖 1,175 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jul — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands668 places mapped
08:00–21:30
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0%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Food & drink604 places mapped
09:00–22:00
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8%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
11%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
333
muggy days a year
66
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
236
umbrella days a year
94.5 m
of rain since 1981
8,316
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
5
volcanoes within 100 km
51.3 km
to Merbabu
2.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:31
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.5 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
2,832
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSemarang RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.9% 221 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Cinco Ranch 7.9%🇨🇦 Halifax 7.9%🇵🇪 Huaraz 7.9%🇺🇸 Lubbock 7.9%Semarang🇺🇸 Sherwood 7.9%🇳🇱 Utrecht 7.9%🇧🇪 Brussels 7.8%🇵🇾 Ciudad del Este 7.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Santa Fe 84 h🇺🇸 Santa Rosa 84 h🇨🇦 Saskatoon 84 h🇧🇩 Savar 84 hSemarang🇮🇩 Seririt 84 h🇷🇺 Serpukhov 84 h🇷🇴 Sibiu 84 h🇰🇭 Siem Reap 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 23.8% 239 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Santa Barbara 24%🇺🇸 Athens 23.9%🇺🇸 Chapel Hill 23.9%🇺🇸 Manhattan 23.9%Semarang🇮🇹 Viareggio 23.8%🇺🇸 Asheville 23.7%🇺🇸 Auburn 23.7%🇺🇸 Pleasanton 23.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Sarnia 0%🇨🇦 Saskatoon 0%🇬🇧 Scarborough 0%🇺🇸 Scranton 0%Semarang🇮🇩 Seririt 0%🇩🇿 Sidi Moussa 0%🇱🇧 Sidon 0%🇮🇩 Singkawang 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 11.1% 120 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Henderson 11.2%🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 11.2%🇲🇦 Bouskoura 11.1%🇧🇯 Cotonou 11.1%Semarang🇮🇩 Seririt 11.1%🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 11.1%🇺🇸 Blue Springs 11%🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 11%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 88.5% 108 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Lancaster 88.5%🇬🇧 Preston 88.5%🇺🇸 Salt Lake City 88.5%🇧🇷 Santos 88.5%Semarang🇯🇵 Toyohashi 88.5%🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 88.5%🇨🇴 Armenia 88.4%🇬🇧 Cambridge 88.3%

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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