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
🇿🇦 South Africa · metro 232k · 221 venues mapped

Somerset West

Where Somerset West 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 78 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇿🇦 Cape Town 📖 41 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Best time to visit Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Oct, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink221 places mapped
09:00–21:30
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0%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
86h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands134 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
22%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
101
umbrella days a year
33.1 m
of rain since 1981
1,078
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2128.3 km
to Prince Edward Island
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:42
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.4 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
8,657
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSomerset West RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 0% 296 of 1,878 🇭🇰 Sha Tin 0%🇬🇧 Shrewsbury 0%🇩🇿 Sidi Moussa 0%🇮🇩 Singkawang 0%Somerset West🇸🇻 Sonsonate 0%🇬🇧 Sunderland 0%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 0%🇵🇭 Tacloban 0%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 85.5 h 78 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Bila Tserkva 85.5 h🇺🇸 Fargo 85.5 h🇺🇸 Franklin 85.5 h🇺🇸 Sarasota 85.5 hSomerset West🇨🇦 St. John's 85.5 h🇿🇦 Cape Town 85 h🇺🇸 Fairland 85 h🇷🇺 Khabarovsk 85 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 24.6% 231 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Kamloops 24.7%🇺🇸 Terre Haute 24.7%🇪🇸 Zamora 24.7%🇬🇧 Maidstone 24.6%Somerset West🇨🇦 Windsor 24.6%🇨🇦 Edmonton 24.5%🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 24.5%🇵🇱 Tarnów 24.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Singkawang 0%🇷🇺 Smolensk 0%🇺🇸 Smyrna 0%🇨🇴 Sogamoso 0%Somerset West🇸🇻 Sonsonate 0%🇺🇸 South Bend 0%🇺🇸 Southgate 0%🇺🇸 Spokane Valley 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.5% 196 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Huddersfield 3.5%🇨🇾 Larnaca 3.5%🇮🇹 Lecce 3.5%🇺🇸 Palm Bay 3.5%Somerset West🇺🇸 Annapolis 3.4%🇺🇸 Indianapolis 3.4%🇺🇸 Kalamazoo 3.4%🇩🇪 Kleve 3.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 88.9% 107 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Bridgend 88.9%🇺🇦 Chernihiv 88.9%🇺🇸 Gainesville 88.9%🇷🇴 Sibiu 88.9%Somerset West🇺🇸 Stillwater 88.9%🇮🇹 Trapani 88.9%🇧🇬 Burgas 88.5%🇺🇸 Lancaster 88.5%

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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