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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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇪🇪 Estonia · metro 450k · 1,343 venues mapped

Tallinn

Where Tallinn 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 73 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Tallinn in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city · in the atlas 🇫🇮 Helsinki 📖 82 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 — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,343 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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13%
open past midnight
78%
open on Sundays
74h
open per week
Shops & errands480 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Culture210 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
52%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
Services191 places mapped
09:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
50%
open on Sundays
65h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
146
umbrella days a year
32.3 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1533.3 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:21
winter sunset (solar approx.)
18.7 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
13,082
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTallinn RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 13.3% 167 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Montbéliard 13.3%🇯🇵 Narita 13.3%🇺🇸 Ocala 13.3%🇨🇴 Santa Marta 13.3%Tallinn🇳🇱 Tilburg 13.3%🇯🇵 Yamagata 13.3%🇫🇷 Agen 13.2%🇺🇸 Cape Coral 13.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 73.5 h 127 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Saga 73.5 h🇨🇴 Santa Marta 73.5 h🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 73.5 h🇭🇺 Szeged 73.5 hTallinn🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 73.5 h🇪🇸 Ferrol 73.2 h🇪🇸 Ibiza 73.2 h🇺🇸 Anchorage 73 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 4.3% 429 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Kreuzlingen 4.3%🇳🇬 Lagos 4.3%🇧🇷 Maceió 4.3%🇷🇺 Smolensk 4.3%Tallinn🇫🇷 Auxerre 4.2%🇧🇩 Chattogram 4.2%🇧🇷 Jaraguá do Sul 4.2%🇧🇷 Londrina 4.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.3% 381 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Poznan 0.3%🇱🇻 Riga 0.3%🇷🇺 Sochi 0.3%🇺🇸 Spokane 0.3%Tallinn🇺🇿 Tashkent 0.3%🇬🇪 Tbilisi 0.3%🇸🇰 Košice 0.2%🇺🇦 Kyiv 0.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.9% 212 of 1,878 🇺🇸 North Charleston 1.9%🇺🇸 Pittsburgh 1.9%🇫🇷 Quimper 1.9%🇮🇩 Singkawang 1.9%Tallinn🇵🇱 Tarnów 1.9%🇮🇹 Vigevano 1.9%🇸🇪 Västerås 1.9%🇸🇰 Žilina 1.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 92.6% 73 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Chesterfield 92.6%🇷🇴 Craiova 92.6%🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 92.6%🇺🇸 Ocala 92.6%Tallinn🇬🇧 Chelmsford 92.5%🇺🇸 Chico 92.5%🇬🇧 Falkirk 92.5%🇬🇧 Inverness 92.5%

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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