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
🇯🇵 Japan · metro 64k · 679 venues mapped

Tsukuba

Where Tsukuba 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 11 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇯🇵 Narita 38 km Nearest written profile 🇯🇵 Tokyo 📖 58 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Tsukuba 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 & drink679 places mapped
10:00–22:00
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7%
open past midnight
97%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
16%
take a midday break
12%
open 24/7
Shops & errands516 places mapped
00:00–24:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
168h
open per week
55%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
85
muggy days a year
18
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
137
umbrella days a year
67 m
of rain since 1981
2,646
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
3
volcanoes within 100 km
95.8 km
to Takaharayama
277.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:29
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.6 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
7,976
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTsukuba RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.4% 226 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Lutsk 7.4%🇺🇸 Manassas Park 7.4%🇭🇷 Pula 7.4%🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 7.4%Tsukuba🇩🇪 Ulm 7.4%🇺🇸 Ames 7.3%🇫🇷 Creil 7.3%🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 7.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Tokushima 84 h🇪🇸 Toledo 84 h🇬🇹 Totonicapán 84 h🇨🇺 Trinidad 84 hTsukuba🇺🇸 Tucson 84 h🇷🇺 Tula 84 h🇲🇽 Tulum 84 h🇺🇸 Turlock 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.7% 335 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Chelmsford 13.7%🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur 13.7%🇬🇧 Oxford 13.7%🇷🇴 Sibiu 13.7%Tsukuba🇫🇷 Ajaccio 13.6%🇨🇭 Biel/Bienne 13.6%🇬🇧 Blackburn 13.6%🇸🇰 Bratislava 13.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 15.8% 237 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Hakodate 15.9%🇩🇪 Kleve 15.9%🇯🇵 Nagoya 15.8%🇨🇭 Thun 15.8%Tsukuba🇩🇪 Bonn 15.7%🇩🇪 Krefeld 15.7%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 15.7%🇦🇺 Bendigo 15.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 11.6% 115 of 1,878 🇿🇦 Cape Town 11.6%🇺🇸 Naples 11.6%🇺🇸 Panama City 11.6%🇯🇵 Toyohashi 11.6%Tsukuba🇷🇺 Volgograd 11.6%🇺🇸 Hemet 11.5%🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 11.5%🇬🇧 Peterborough 11.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.8% 11 of 1,704 🇹🇼 Miaoli 98.8%🇺🇸 Orlando 98.8%🇷🇺 Ryazan 98.8%🇯🇵 Shibata 98.8%Tsukuba🇷🇺 Tula 98.8%🇲🇲 Twante 98.8%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 98.8%🇬🇪 Batumi 98.7%

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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