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
🇲🇲 Myanmar · metro 137k · 838 venues mapped

Twante

Where Twante 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 🇲🇲 Yangon 26 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 397 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jan, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink838 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Shops & errands323 places mapped
06:00–24:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
161h
open per week
49%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
248
muggy days a year
145
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
167
umbrella days a year
42.6 m
of rain since 1981
13,975
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
473.8 km
to Popa
4.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:39
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.1 h
longest day of the year
29
public holidays, 2024
5,813
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTwante RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.1% 289 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Görlitz 1.1%🇺🇸 Hilo 1.1%🇦🇱 Shkoder 1.1%🇷🇸 Subotica 1.1%Twante🇿🇦 Durban 1%🇺🇦 Dnipro 0.9%🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 0.9%🇹🇲 Ashgabat 0.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Tucson 84 h🇷🇺 Tula 84 h🇲🇽 Tulum 84 h🇺🇸 Turlock 84 hTwante🇷🇺 Tyumen 84 h🇷🇴 Târgu Mureș 84 h🇮🇩 Ubud 84 h🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 21% 264 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Visakhapatnam 21.1%🇨🇴 Yopal 21.1%🇨🇦 Halifax 21%🇲🇾 Ipoh 21%Twante🇮🇹 Chieti 20.9%🇮🇩 Malang 20.9%🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 20.9%🇬🇧 Reading 20.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.2% 362 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Rochester 2.2%🇺🇸 Salinas 2.2%🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 2.2%🇭🇺 Sopron 2.2%Twante🇷🇺 Vladivostok 2.2%🇬🇧 Aberdeen 2.1%🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 2.1%🇳🇱 Dordrecht 2.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 8.1% 150 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Murmansk 8.1%🇺🇸 New Bedford 8.1%🇺🇸 Santa Clarita 8.1%🇺🇸 Savannah 8.1%Twante🇹🇷 Bodrum 8%🇳🇮 León 8%🇺🇸 Miami 8%🇯🇵 Muroran 8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.8% 11 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Ryazan 98.8%🇯🇵 Shibata 98.8%🇯🇵 Tsukuba 98.8%🇷🇺 Tula 98.8%Twante🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 98.8%🇬🇪 Batumi 98.7%🇨🇳 Guangzhou 98.7%🇷🇺 Kaluga 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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