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
🇯🇵 Japan · metro 70k · 300 venues mapped

Tanabe

Where Tanabe 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 28 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇯🇵 Wakayama 59 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Osaka 📖 108 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Tanabe 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 & drink300 places mapped
11:00–23:00
0006121824
15%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
15%
take a midday break
10%
open 24/7
Shops & errands86 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
88%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
109
muggy days a year
62
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
153
umbrella days a year
87.9 m
of rain since 1981
436
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
296.4 km
to Sanbesan
19
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:54
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.4 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
7,584
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTanabe RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 15% 150 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Vicenza 15.1%🇲🇴 Macau 15%🇪🇸 Marbella 15%🇺🇸 Modesto 15%Tanabe🇺🇸 Cookeville 14.9%🇧🇷 Santos 14.9%🇺🇸 Sioux Falls 14.9%🇰🇷 Cheongju-si 14.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57 h 193 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Payyanur 57 h🇧🇷 Pelotas 57 h🇮🇹 Pordenone 57 h🇳🇿 Rotorua 57 hTanabe🇨🇭 Winterthur 57 h🇩🇪 Wuppertal 57 h🇬🇧 Bournemouth 56.8 h🇮🇪 Kilkenny 56.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10% 372 of 1,878 🇨🇺 Santiago de Cuba 10%🇰🇷 Seogwipo 10%🇹🇳 Sousse 10%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 10%Tanabe🇯🇵 Utsunomiya 10%🇧🇷 Araraquara 9.9%🇪🇸 Córdoba 9.9%🇬🇧 Littlehampton 9.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 15% 244 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Leipzig 15.2%🇬🇧 Cheltenham 15.1%🇦🇹 Innsbruck 15%🇮🇳 Kannur 15%Tanabe🇬🇧 Hinckley 14.9%🇩🇪 Wuppertal 14.9%🇬🇧 Carlisle 14.8%🇦🇹 Salzburg 14.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10% 131 of 1,878 🇺🇿 Asaka 10%🇮🇩 Bandung 10%🇬🇧 Perth 10%🇰🇷 Seogwipo 10%Tanabe🇩🇿 Tizi Ouzou 10%🇪🇨 Tulcán 10%🇨🇳 Wuhan 10%🇯🇵 Koriyama 9.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.1% 28 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Gelendzhik 97.1%🇺🇸 Hamilton 97.1%🇬🇧 Northampton 97.1%🇺🇸 Spokane 97.1%Tanabe🇳🇵 Bharatpur 97%🇺🇸 Brandon 97%🇷🇺 Cherepovets 97%🇺🇦 Dnipro 97%

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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