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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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.
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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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Western Europe20
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North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇮🇷 Iran · metro 707k · 1,235 venues mapped

Shiraz

Where Shiraz 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇮🇷 Yazd 309 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇭 Manama 📖 422 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Apr, May, Sep, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands1,318 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
5%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
10%
open 24/7
Food & drink1,235 places mapped
09:00–23:59
0006121824
15%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
6%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
33
umbrella days a year
10.3 m
of rain since 1981
6,387
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
706.2 km
to Damavand
29.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:06
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14 h
longest day of the year
26
public holidays, 2024
9,564
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureShiraz RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 15.4% 146 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Kagoshima 15.4%🇯🇵 Niigata 15.4%🇪🇸 Pamplona 15.4%🇵🇹 Portimão 15.4%Shiraz🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 15.3%🇷🇴 Constanța 15.3%🇺🇸 Corpus Christi 15.3%🇺🇸 Findlay 15.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Saint Cloud 91 h🇦🇷 San Miguel de Tucumán 91 h🇷🇺 Saratov 91 h🇺🇸 Savannah 91 hShiraz🇷🇺 Sochi 91 h🇺🇸 Springfield 91 h🇷🇺 Stavropol 91 h🇺🇸 Stillwater 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.5% 337 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Tagaytay 13.6%🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 13.6%🇷🇸 Belgrade 13.5%🇪🇸 Bilbao 13.5%Shiraz🇬🇧 Bath 13.4%🇮🇩 Jakarta 13.4%🇫🇷 Le Havre 13.4%🇬🇧 Nottingham 13.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.9% 355 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Rapid City 2.9%🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 2.9%🇺🇸 San Diego 2.9%🇺🇸 Seattle 2.9%Shiraz🇺🇸 Washington 2.9%🇨🇦 Winnipeg 2.9%🇬🇧 East Kilbride 2.8%🇺🇸 Eau Claire 2.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.8% 173 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Cordoba 5.8%🇧🇷 Niterói 5.8%🇷🇺 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky 5.8%🇬🇧 Runcorn 5.8%Shiraz🇷🇺 Sochi 5.8%🇺🇸 Tacoma 5.8%🇺🇸 Anchorage 5.7%🇮🇹 Anzio 5.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇴🇲 Seeb 100%🇲🇾 Seremban 100%🇨🇦 Sherbrooke 100%🇺🇸 Sherwood 100%Shiraz🇯🇵 Shizuoka 100%🇩🇿 Sidi Moussa 100%🇵🇪 Tacna 100%🇺🇸 Tacoma 100%

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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