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
🇦🇺 Australia · metro 108k · 249 venues mapped

Toowoomba

Where Toowoomba 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 · in the atlas 🇦🇺 Brisbane 📖 106 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, Sep, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink249 places mapped
10:00–21:00
0006121824
16%
open past midnight
80%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands130 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
20%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
8
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
85
umbrella days a year
32.2 m
of rain since 1981
4,160
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1270.8 km
to McBride Volcanic Province
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:05
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.9 h
longest day of the year
7
public holidays, 2024
3,502
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureToowoomba RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 16% 140 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Lugo 16.1%🇬🇧 Maidenhead 16%🇨🇱 Santiago 16%🇺🇸 Springfield 16%Toowoomba🇮🇹 Trapani 16%🇺🇸 Bakersfield 15.9%🇰🇷 Busan 15.9%🇫🇷 Lille 15.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 72 h 133 of 1,878 🇨🇱 Rancagua 72 h🇮🇸 Reykjavik 72 h🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 72 h🇵🇱 Szczecin 72 hToowoomba🇵🇱 Warsaw 72 h🇬🇧 Aylesbury 71.5 h🇳🇮 Managua 71.5 h🇦🇷 Ushuaia 71.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 36% 129 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Asti 36.1%🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 36.1%🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 36.1%🇺🇸 Birmingham 36%Toowoomba🇺🇸 Asbury Park 35.9%🇺🇸 Lawrence 35.9%🇺🇸 Southgate 35.9%🇺🇸 Sarasota 35.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 8% 304 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Gold Coast 8.1%🇦🇺 Sydney 8.1%🇬🇧 Grimsby 8%🇦🇺 Perth 8%Toowoomba🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 8%🇬🇧 Hastings 7.9%🇨🇳 Nanjing 7.9%🇬🇧 Southampton 7.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4% 191 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Nagano 4%🇺🇸 New York City 4%🇷🇺 Samara 4%🇺🇸 Stockton 4%Toowoomba🇭🇰 Tuen Mun 4%🇺🇸 Worcester 4%🇬🇧 Barry 3.9%🇧🇷 Brasilia 3.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 The Woodlands 100%🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 100%🇲🇽 Tijuana 100%🇯🇵 Tokushima 100%Toowoomba🇺🇸 Traverse City 100%🇭🇰 Tuen Mun 100%🇲🇽 Tulum 100%🇹🇭 Udon Thani 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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