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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🇺🇸 United States · metro 124k · 260 venues mapped

Thousand Oaks

Where Thousand Oaks 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Simi Valley 12 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Los Angeles 📖 56 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink260 places mapped
10:00–21:00
0006121824
7%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
Shops & errands62 places mapped
07:00–22:30
0006121824
14%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
112h
open per week
14%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
37
umbrella days a year
19.8 m
of rain since 1981
766
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
317.1 km
to Salton Buttes
15.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:50
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,974
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureThousand Oaks RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.4% 226 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Lustenau 7.4%🇺🇦 Lutsk 7.4%🇺🇸 Manassas Park 7.4%🇭🇷 Pula 7.4%Thousand Oaks🇯🇵 Tsukuba 7.4%🇩🇪 Ulm 7.4%🇺🇸 Ames 7.3%🇫🇷 Creil 7.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇸🇬 Singapore 77 h🇭🇺 Szombathely 77 h🇵🇭 Tacloban 77 h🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 77 hThousand Oaks🇪🇸 Torremolinos 77 h🇸🇰 Trnava 77 h🇭🇰 Tsuen Wan 77 h🇭🇰 Tuen Mun 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 41.2% 86 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Chon Buri 41.3%🇺🇸 Grand Rapids 41.3%🇺🇸 Riverside 41.2%🇧🇿 San Pedro 41.2%Thousand Oaks🇺🇸 Tuscaloosa 41%🇺🇸 Franklin 40.9%🇺🇸 Huntington Station 40.9%🇺🇸 Dayton 40.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.4% 340 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Bridgend 4.4%🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 4.4%🇯🇵 Hino 4.4%🇨🇴 Santa Marta 4.4%Thousand Oaks🇨🇱 Valdivia 4.4%🇺🇸 Anchorage 4.3%🇹🇭 Chon Buri 4.3%🇲🇽 Guadalajara 4.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Temse 0%🇲🇽 Tepic 0%🇪🇸 Terrassa 0%🇺🇸 The Woodlands 0%Thousand Oaks🇳🇱 Tilburg 0%🇮🇹 Tivoli 0%🇲🇽 Tlalnepantla 0%🇪🇸 Toledo 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Tacoma 100%🇺🇸 Tallahassee 100%🇺🇸 Temecula 100%🇺🇸 The Woodlands 100%Thousand Oaks🇲🇽 Tijuana 100%🇯🇵 Tokushima 100%🇦🇺 Toowoomba 100%🇺🇸 Traverse City 100%

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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