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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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇺🇸 United States · metro 53k · 202 venues mapped

Smyrna

Where Smyrna 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 28 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Dunwoody 18 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Miami 📖 993 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Smyrna 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 & drink202 places mapped
07:00–23:00
0006121824
14%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
101h
open per week
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
57
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
150
umbrella days a year
59.2 m
of rain since 1981
3,657
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1974.5 km
to Carrizozo
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:33
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
18,104
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSmyrna RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.3% 157 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Newry 14.3%🇯🇵 Osaki 14.3%🇸🇷 Paramaribo 14.3%🇮🇷 Rasht 14.3%Smyrna🇺🇸 New York City 14.2%🇫🇷 Paris 14.2%🇦🇹 Villach 14.2%🇫🇷 Brest 14.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 101 h 28 of 1,878 🇸🇩 Khartoum 101.5 h🇻🇳 Ninh Bình 101.5 h🇺🇸 Phoenix 101.5 h🇭🇷 Split 101.5 hSmyrna🇧🇦 Sarajevo 100.5 h🇺🇸 Great Falls 100 h🇺🇸 Hemet 100 h🇺🇸 Lafayette 100 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 45.5% 59 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Waukegan 45.8%🇺🇸 Kennewick 45.7%🇺🇸 Billings 45.5%🇺🇸 Canton 45.5%Smyrna🇧🇦 Tuzla 45.5%🇭🇷 Zagreb 45.5%🇺🇸 Stillwater 45.3%🇺🇸 Oshkosh 45.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇩🇿 Sidi Moussa 0%🇱🇧 Sidon 0%🇮🇩 Singkawang 0%🇷🇺 Smolensk 0%Smyrna🇨🇴 Sogamoso 0%🇿🇦 Somerset West 0%🇸🇻 Sonsonate 0%🇺🇸 South Bend 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.2% 179 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne 5.2%🇯🇵 Okayama 5.2%🇨🇦 Quebec 5.2%🇰🇭 Siem Reap 5.2%Smyrna🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 5.2%🇬🇧 Stevenage 5.2%🇺🇸 Tallahassee 5.2%🇯🇵 Tsuruoka 5.2%

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.

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