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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🇸🇬 Singapore · metro 5.1M · 14,601 venues mapped

Singapore

Where Singapore 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 29 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Singapore in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇲🇾 Johor Bahru 22 km Nearest written profile 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 📖 316 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Singapore 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 & drink14,601 places mapped
10:30–22:00
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8%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
6%
open 24/7
Shops & errands3,467 places mapped
07:30–23:00
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1%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
42%
open 24/7
Services484 places mapped
09:30–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
46%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Culture321 places mapped
10:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
365
muggy days a year
276
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
314
umbrella days a year
132.5 m
of rain since 1981
4,834
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
418.8 km
to Marapi
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
19:04
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.2 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
3,907
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSingapore RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.1% 219 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Munich 8.1%🇬🇧 Nottingham 8.1%🇺🇸 Raleigh 8.1%🇰🇭 Siem Reap 8.1%Singapore🇩🇪 Aalen 8%🇬🇭 Accra 8%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 8%🇩🇰 Copenhagen 8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs 77 h🇨🇦 Sherbrooke 77 h🇯🇵 Shibata 77 h🇺🇸 Simi Valley 77 hSingapore🇭🇺 Szombathely 77 h🇵🇭 Tacloban 77 h🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 77 h🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.1% 361 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Hof 11.1%🇪🇸 Nerja 11.1%🇵🇪 Piura 11.1%🇮🇩 Seririt 11.1%Singapore🇨🇴 Sogamoso 11.1%🇬🇧 York 11.1%🇱🇰 Galle 11%🇺🇦 Chernihiv 10.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 12.1% 269 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Seremban 12.2%🇯🇵 Shibata 12.2%🇩🇪 Dessau 12.1%🇩🇪 Münster 12.1%Singapore🇯🇵 Muroran 12%🇨🇦 Peterborough 12%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 12%🇬🇧 Colchester 11.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.1% 170 of 1,878 🇲🇦 Marrakesh 6.1%🇧🇷 Ponta Porã 6.1%🇪🇨 Riobamba 6.1%🇸🇻 Santa Ana 6.1%Singapore🇷🇺 Tula 6.1%🇺🇸 Winchester 6.1%🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 6%🇪🇸 Gijón 6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97% 29 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Loughborough 97%🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 97%🇰🇿 Petropavl 97%🇺🇸 Simi Valley 97%Singapore🇺🇸 Washington 97%🇹🇲 Ashgabat 96.9%🇺🇸 Bloomington 96.9%🇺🇸 Boulder 96.9%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities