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
🇨🇦 Canada · metro 5.6M · 12,075 venues mapped

Toronto

Where Toronto 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 40 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Toronto in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇨🇦 Pickering 30 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Montreal 📖 502 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 & drink12,075 places mapped
10:45–22:30
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15%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
79h
open per week
10%
open 24/7
Shops & errands3,559 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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1%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
24%
open 24/7
Services2,364 places mapped
09:00–19:30
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1%
open past midnight
30%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Culture959 places mapped
09:00–20:30
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0%
open past midnight
60%
open on Sundays
62h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
10
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
170
umbrella days a year
31.3 m
of rain since 1981
54
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2327.4 km
to Dotsero
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:44
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,149
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureToronto RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 15.1% 149 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Kaluga 15.1%🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 15.1%🇺🇸 Nashville 15.1%🇺🇸 Panama City 15.1%Toronto🇮🇹 Treviso 15.1%🇮🇹 Vicenza 15.1%🇲🇴 Macau 15%🇪🇸 Marbella 15%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 79 h 101 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Maringá 79 h🇺🇸 Philadelphia 79 h🇨🇿 Pilsen 79 h🇧🇷 Santos 79 hToronto🇺🇸 Washington 79 h🇺🇸 Athens 78.9 h🇺🇸 Medford 78.8 h🇬🇧 Northampton 78.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 19% 283 of 1,878 🇧🇩 Savar 19%🇯🇵 Shizuoka 19%🇬🇧 Slough 19%🇬🇧 Swindon 19%Toronto🇲🇽 Monterrey 18.9%🇷🇸 Subotica 18.9%🇬🇧 Sunderland 18.9%🇹🇼 Taichung 18.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.9% 365 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Rockford 1.9%🇧🇩 Savar 1.9%🇸🇪 Stockholm 1.9%🇮🇳 Talegaon Dabhade 1.9%Toronto🇺🇸 Tulsa 1.9%🇺🇸 Ames 1.8%🇹🇭 Bangkok 1.8%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 1.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 9.7% 134 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Sano 9.8%🇲🇦 Casablanca 9.7%🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 9.7%🇯🇵 Naha 9.7%Toronto🇦🇺 Adelaide 9.6%🇧🇷 São Paulo 9.6%🇺🇿 Tashkent 9.6%🇲🇾 Alor Setar 9.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95.9% 40 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Little Rock 95.9%🇯🇵 Marugame 95.9%🇷🇴 Râmnicu Vâlcea 95.9%🇺🇿 Tashkent 95.9%Toronto🇺🇸 Annapolis 95.8%🇺🇸 Draper 95.8%🇹🇷 Gölcük 95.8%🇩🇿 Oran 95.8%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities