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
🇫🇮 Finland · metro 104k · 780 venues mapped

Turku

Where Turku 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 103 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Turku in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇫🇮 Tampere 142 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇮 Helsinki 📖 150 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Turku 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 & drink780 places mapped
10:30–21:00
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13%
open past midnight
64%
open on Sundays
64h
open per week
Culture282 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
52%
open on Sundays
38h
open per week
Shops & errands248 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
101h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Services70 places mapped
09:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
33%
open on Sundays
55h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
141
umbrella days a year
34.4 m
of rain since 1981
19
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1495.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:21
winter sunset (solar approx.)
19 h
longest day of the year
15
public holidays, 2024
13,245
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTurku RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.9% 171 of 1,878 🇮🇪 Limerick 12.9%🇪🇸 Roquetas de Mar 12.9%🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 12.9%🇳🇴 Stavanger 12.9%Turku🇷🇺 Angarsk 12.8%🇫🇷 Besançon 12.8%🇯🇵 Echizen 12.8%🇨🇴 Ibagué 12.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 64 h 164 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Cambridge 64 h🇦🇹 Linz 64 h🇯🇵 Nagano 64 h🇳🇴 Trondheim 64 hTurku🇧🇷 Jundiaí 63.5 h🇬🇧 Oxford 63.5 h🇬🇧 Plymouth 63.5 h🇯🇵 Sakata 63.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.9% 373 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Littlehampton 9.9%🇧🇷 Niterói 9.9%🇨🇦 Pickering 9.9%🇫🇷 Toulon 9.9%Turku🇧🇷 Cuiabá 9.8%🇪🇸 Cádiz 9.8%🇸🇪 Gävle 9.8%🇦🇴 Lubango 9.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.5% 379 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Podolsk 0.5%🇨🇦 Regina 0.5%🇵🇱 Rzeszów 0.5%🇮🇩 Surabaya 0.5%Turku🇺🇸 Waukegan 0.5%🇵🇱 Wrocław 0.5%🇷🇺 Zelenograd 0.5%🇺🇸 Akron 0.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.6% 215 of 1,878 🇲🇺 Port Louis 1.6%🇬🇧 Portsmouth 1.6%🇺🇸 South Bend 1.6%🇲🇽 Toluca 1.6%Turku🇨🇦 Victoria 1.6%🇩🇪 Bayreuth 1.5%🇺🇸 Billings 1.5%🇺🇸 Boise 1.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 89.3% 103 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Grimsby 89.4%🇧🇬 Stara Zagora 89.4%🇸🇪 Uppsala 89.4%🇵🇪 Lima 89.3%Turku🇵🇭 Agoo 89.2%🇵🇹 Amora 89.1%🇬🇧 Camberley 89.1%🇵🇹 Setúbal 89.1%

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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