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
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Western Europe20
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North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇻🇳 Vietnam · metro 258k · 226 venues mapped

Thái Nguyên

Where Thái Nguyên 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 17 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇻🇳 Hanoi 📖 63 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink226 places mapped
07:30–23:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
107h
open per week
23%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
214
muggy days a year
81
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
174
umbrella days a year
65.7 m
of rain since 1981
7,636
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
492.7 km
to Hainan Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:20
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.4 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
6,049
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureThái Nguyên RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 0% 296 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Tarlac City 0%🇵🇹 Tavira 0%🇨🇱 Temuco 0%🇲🇽 Tepic 0%Thái Nguyên🇩🇿 Tizi Ouzou 0%🇲🇽 Tlalnepantla 0%🇧🇪 Tournai 0%🇭🇰 Tsuen Wan 0%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 106.8 h 17 of 1,878 🇪🇬 Hurghada 107.7 h🇺🇸 Abilene 107 h🇺🇸 Atlantic City 107 h🇺🇸 Oxford 107 hThái Nguyên🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi 105 h🇹🇷 Alanya 105 h🇲🇪 Budva 105 h🇺🇸 Chicago Heights 105 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 22.7% 248 of 1,878 🇲🇲 Sagaing 22.8%🇮🇳 Alappuzha 22.7%🇿🇼 Harare 22.7%🇨🇦 Quebec 22.7%Thái Nguyên🇲🇲 Yangon 22.7%🇲🇽 Hermosillo 22.6%🇪🇸 Lugo 22.6%🇬🇧 Reigate 22.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.5% 339 of 1,878 🇿🇼 Harare 4.5%🇮🇳 Mumbai 4.5%🇲🇾 Rawang 4.5%🇬🇧 Royal Tunbridge Wells 4.5%Thái Nguyên🇯🇵 Asahikawa 4.4%🇬🇧 Barnsley 4.4%🇬🇧 Bridgend 4.4%🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 4.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 22.7% 41 of 1,878 🇬🇳 Coyah 22.9%🇸🇦 Jeddah 22.9%🇰🇼 Kuwait City 22.9%🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 22.7%Thái Nguyên🇯🇵 Kofu 22.4%🇺🇸 Las Vegas 22.1%🇴🇲 Seeb 21.9%🇯🇵 Shizuoka 21.4%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities