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

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
🇮🇩 Indonesia · metro 1.5M · 428 venues mapped

Surakarta

Where Surakarta 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 🇮🇩 Yogyakarta 58 km Nearest written profile 🇸🇬 Singapore 📖 1,252 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink428 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands406 places mapped
08:00–20:15
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
78%
open on Sundays
88h
open per week
17%
take a midday break
6%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
312
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
235
umbrella days a year
95.7 m
of rain since 1981
4,875
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
5
volcanoes within 100 km
40.4 km
to Lawu
7.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:28
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.6 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
2,762
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSurakarta RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.4% 196 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Mexico City 10.4%🇺🇸 Mission Viejo 10.4%🇺🇸 Pleasanton 10.4%🇺🇸 San Diego 10.4%Surakarta🇮🇹 Udine 10.4%🇧🇷 Boa Vista 10.3%🇬🇧 Burnley 10.3%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 10.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Smolensk 84 h🇧🇬 Stara Zagora 84 h🇺🇦 Sumy 84 h🇮🇩 Surabaya 84 hSurakarta🇨🇳 Suzhou 84 h🇮🇷 Tabriz 84 h🇵🇭 Tagaytay 84 h🇮🇳 Talegaon Dabhade 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 25% 227 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Perth 25%🇨🇬 Pointe-Noire 25%🇪🇨 Puyo 25%🇺🇸 Sherwood 25%Surakarta🇲🇽 Tepic 25%🇬🇷 Volos 25%🇮🇹 Bologna 24.9%🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 24.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.1% 363 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Fargo 2.1%🇨🇦 Guelph 2.1%🇺🇸 Olathe 2.1%🇩🇪 Potsdam 2.1%Surakarta🇲🇦 Tangier 2.1%🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 2.1%🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 2%🇨🇦 Calgary 2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 8.3% 148 of 1,878 🇭🇳 La Lima 8.3%🇨🇬 Pointe-Noire 8.3%🇷🇺 Pyatigorsk 8.3%🇨🇦 Saskatoon 8.3%Surakarta🇦🇷 Ushuaia 8.3%🇬🇧 Pontefract 8.2%🇧🇩 Savar 8.2%🇺🇸 Terre Haute 8.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 77.8% 197 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Marignane 78%🇮🇩 Ubud 78%🇳🇿 Hamilton 77.8%🇨🇿 Prague 77.8%Surakarta🇳🇱 Utrecht 77.8%🇨🇴 Yopal 77.8%🇭🇺 Kecskemét 77.5%🇵🇦 David 77.4%

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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