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
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🇧🇹 Bhutan · metro 99k · 606 venues mapped

Thimphu

Where Thimphu 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 🇧🇩 Savar 407 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 1,357 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Thimphu 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 & drink606 places mapped
09:00–21:30
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Shops & errands573 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
188
umbrella days a year
44.9 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
916.7 km
to Tengchong
2.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:12
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.9 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
7,166
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureThimphu RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.9% 241 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Mansfield 5.9%🇮🇩 Mataram 5.9%🇻🇳 Nha Trang 5.9%🇬🇧 Portsmouth 5.9%Thimphu🇷🇴 Timișoara 5.9%🇮🇹 Tivoli 5.9%🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 5.9%🇵🇱 Warsaw 5.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Tarlac City 84 h🇬🇪 Tbilisi 84 h🇭🇳 Tegucigalpa 84 h🇺🇦 Ternopil 84 hThimphu🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 84 h🇷🇴 Timișoara 84 h🇩🇿 Tizi Ouzou 84 h🇯🇵 Tokushima 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.9% 413 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Landshut 5.9%🇩🇪 Münster 5.9%🇩🇪 Rosenheim 5.9%🇪🇸 Tarifa 5.9%Thimphu🇪🇸 Torrevieja 5.9%🇫🇷 Arles 5.8%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 5.8%🇧🇪 La Louvière 5.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Ternopil 0%🇺🇸 Terre Haute 0%🇺🇸 Texarkana 0%🇺🇸 The Woodlands 0%Thimphu🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 0%🇲🇽 Tijuana 0%🇷🇴 Timișoara 0%🇳🇮 Tipitapa 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 11.8% 113 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Barletta 11.8%🇦🇱 Durrës 11.8%🇦🇱 Fier 11.8%🇮🇩 Mataram 11.8%Thimphu🇰🇿 Almaty 11.7%🇺🇸 New Braunfels 11.7%🇿🇦 Cape Town 11.6%🇺🇸 Naples 11.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 82.6% 156 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Shrewsbury 82.7%🇳🇿 Christchurch 82.6%🇧🇷 Novo Hamburgo 82.6%🇧🇷 Salvador 82.6%Thimphu🇵🇹 Funchal 82.5%🇳🇱 Heemskerk 82.4%🇧🇷 São Paulo 82.4%🇮🇹 Palermo 82.3%

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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