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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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
🇷🇴 Romania · metro 128k · 213 venues mapped

Târgu Mureș

Where Târgu Mureș 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 · in the atlas 🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 📖 77 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Best time to visit 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 & drink213 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
5%
open past midnight
79%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands169 places mapped
07:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
63%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
6%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
132
umbrella days a year
27.5 m
of rain since 1981
1,022
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
942.7 km
to Kula
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:37
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.8 h
longest day of the year
17
public holidays, 2024
12,611
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTârgu Mureș RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.8% 252 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Gliwice 4.8%🇯🇵 Marugame 4.8%🇭🇺 Miskolc 4.8%🇬🇧 Peterborough 4.8%Târgu Mureș🇮🇹 Viareggio 4.8%🇲🇲 Yangon 4.8%🇮🇪 Cork 4.7%🇬🇧 Gillingham 4.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Tulum 84 h🇺🇸 Turlock 84 h🇲🇲 Twante 84 h🇷🇺 Tyumen 84 hTârgu Mureș🇮🇩 Ubud 84 h🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 84 h🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 84 h🇨🇺 Varadero 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 21.4% 260 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Adelaide 21.4%🇬🇧 Basildon 21.4%🇮🇹 Livorno 21.4%🇮🇹 Milan 21.4%Târgu Mureș🇲🇽 Valladolid 21.4%🇵🇭 Dumaguete 21.3%🇮🇹 Imperia 21.2%🇮🇹 Modena 21.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇧🇦 Tuzla 0%🇷🇺 Tver 0%🇷🇺 Tyumen 0%🇷🇴 Târgoviște 0%Târgu Mureș🇧🇷 Uberlândia 0%🇹🇭 Ubon Ratchathani 0%🇮🇳 Udaipur 0%🇹🇭 Udon Thani 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.2% 199 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Lowell 3.2%🇺🇦 Lutsk 3.2%🇺🇸 Manchester 3.2%🇺🇸 Salt Lake City 3.2%Târgu Mureș🇵🇱 Wrocław 3.2%🇺🇸 Cinco Ranch 3.1%🇺🇸 Fairland 3.1%🇳🇿 Hamilton 3.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 62.9% 302 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Lorient 63.1%🇳🇱 Leiden 63%🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 63%🇧🇷 Nova Lima 62.9%Târgu Mureș🇧🇷 Vitória 62.7%🇫🇷 Belfort 62.5%🇨🇺 Holguín 62.5%🇳🇨 Nouméa 62.5%

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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