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.

Read the method →
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
🇫🇮 Finland · metro 154k · 789 venues mapped

Tampere

Where Tampere 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 57 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇫🇮 Lahti 116 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇮 Turku 📖 142 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Tampere 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 & drink789 places mapped
10:30–21:00
0006121824
18%
open past midnight
67%
open on Sundays
64h
open per week
Shops & errands252 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
101h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Culture142 places mapped
10:00–18:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
52%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
162
umbrella days a year
37.2 m
of rain since 1981
4
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1634.8 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:04
winter sunset (solar approx.)
19.5 h
longest day of the year
15
public holidays, 2024
13,195
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTampere RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 17.9% 122 of 1,878 🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 18%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 18%🇯🇵 Hanno 17.9%🇺🇸 Oxford 17.9%Tampere🇳🇱 Amsterdam 17.8%🇨🇱 Valdivia 17.8%🇲🇦 Casablanca 17.7%🇪🇸 Cádiz 17.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63.5 h 165 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Jundiaí 63.5 h🇬🇧 Oxford 63.5 h🇬🇧 Plymouth 63.5 h🇯🇵 Sakata 63.5 hTampere🇯🇵 Isesaki 63.2 h🇨🇭 Aarau 63 h🇬🇧 Aberdeen 63 h🇯🇵 Akita 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.9% 363 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Sogamoso 11.1%🇬🇧 York 11.1%🇱🇰 Galle 11%🇺🇦 Chernihiv 10.9%Tampere🇧🇴 Cochabamba 10.8%🇷🇺 Maykop 10.8%🇨🇭 Montreux 10.8%🇫🇷 Paris 10.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.8% 376 of 1,878 🇸🇦 Riyadh 0.8%🇷🇺 Ryazan 0.8%🇦🇱 Shkoder 0.8%🇷🇴 Sibiu 0.8%Tampere🇺🇸 Wilkes-Barre 0.8%🇵🇪 Arequipa 0.7%🇺🇸 Bloomington 0.7%🇳🇱 Breda 0.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.2% 209 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Mestre 2.2%🇺🇸 Missoula 2.2%🇺🇸 Mount Vernon 2.2%🇺🇸 Seattle 2.2%Tampere🇺🇸 Waukegan 2.2%🇺🇸 Wichita 2.2%🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 2.1%🇺🇸 Champaign 2.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94.2% 57 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Eugene 94.2%🇮🇪 Galway 94.2%🇺🇸 Kansas City 94.2%🇬🇧 Reigate 94.2%Tampere🇬🇧 Banbury 94.1%🇬🇧 Carlisle 94.1%🇲🇦 Casablanca 94.1%🇬🇧 Crawley 94.1%

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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