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.
How this is made

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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
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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
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · metro 77k · 210 venues mapped

Stara Zagora

Where Stara Zagora 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 🇧🇬 Plovdiv 80 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇬 Sofia 📖 192 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink210 places mapped
09:00–23:00
0006121824
15%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
Shops & errands174 places mapped
07:30–21:30
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
100h
open per week
28%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
101
umbrella days a year
27 m
of rain since 1981
2,206
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
492.6 km
to Kula
1.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:48
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.3 h
longest day of the year
15
public holidays, 2024
12,350
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureStara Zagora RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.8% 152 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Milan 14.8%🇺🇸 Moreno Valley 14.8%🇺🇸 Sandusky 14.8%🇺🇸 St. Louis 14.8%Stara Zagora🇷🇺 Tomsk 14.8%🇺🇸 Bloomington 14.7%🇳🇱 Hoorn 14.7%🇺🇸 Norfolk 14.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Sibiu 84 h🇰🇭 Siem Reap 84 h🇮🇩 Singkawang 84 h🇷🇺 Smolensk 84 hStara Zagora🇺🇦 Sumy 84 h🇮🇩 Surabaya 84 h🇮🇩 Surakarta 84 h🇨🇳 Suzhou 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.4% 398 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 7.4%🇫🇷 Lens 7.4%🇩🇪 Marl 7.4%🇦🇹 Salzburg 7.4%Stara Zagora🇷🇺 Azov 7.3%🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 7.3%🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 7.3%🇺🇦 Luhansk 7.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇸 South Bend 0%🇺🇸 Southgate 0%🇺🇸 Spokane Valley 0%🇨🇦 St. John's 0%Stara Zagora🇷🇺 Stavropol 0%🇷🇸 Subotica 0%🇺🇦 Sumy 0%🇮🇪 Swords 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Sogamoso 0%🇨🇭 Solothurn 0%🇭🇺 Sopron 0%🇭🇷 Split 0%Stara Zagora🇺🇸 State College 0%🇳🇴 Stavanger 0%🇺🇸 Stillwater 0%🇩🇪 Stralsund 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 89.4% 102 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Perth 89.5%🇮🇷 Rasht 89.5%🇳🇿 Dunedin 89.4%🇬🇧 Grimsby 89.4%Stara Zagora🇸🇪 Uppsala 89.4%🇵🇪 Lima 89.3%🇫🇮 Turku 89.3%🇵🇭 Agoo 89.2%

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, shops open on sunday.

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