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
🇸🇪 Sweden · metro 90k · 240 venues mapped

Umeå

Where Umeå 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 105 of 1,704.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇫🇮 Oulu 📖 282 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Umeå 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 & drink240 places mapped
10:30–20:00
0006121824
7%
open past midnight
67%
open on Sundays
61h
open per week
Shops & errands74 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
93h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
148
umbrella days a year
37.5 m
of rain since 1981
2
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1434.2 km
to Jan Mayen
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
13:46
winter sunset (solar approx.)
20.9 h
longest day of the year
63
public holidays, 2024
13,428
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureUmeå RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.3% 227 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Sakata 7.3%🇺🇸 San Francisco 7.3%🇷🇴 Sibiu 7.3%🇺🇦 Sumy 7.3%Umeå🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 7.2%🇮🇹 Cuneo 7.2%🇺🇸 Grand Junction 7.2%🇪🇸 Mataró 7.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 61 h 177 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Malmo 61 h🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 61 h🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 61 h🇨🇭 Solothurn 61 hUmeå🇪🇸 Valencia 61 h🇬🇧 York 61 h🇬🇧 Ipswich 60.8 h🇬🇧 Luton 60.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.3% 399 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 7.3%🇺🇦 Luhansk 7.3%🇷🇺 Pyatigorsk 7.3%🇩🇪 Saarlouis 7.3%Umeå🇹🇷 Gölbaşı 7.2%🇺🇦 Kharkiv 7.2%🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 7.2%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 7.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1% 374 of 1,878 🇰🇪 Nairobi 1%🇭🇷 Split 1%🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 1%🇷🇺 Tula 1%Umeå🇺🇸 Waco 1%🇺🇸 Albuquerque 0.9%🇿🇦 Cape Town 0.9%🇺🇸 Charlotte 0.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Troyes 0%🇵🇪 Trujillo 0%🇭🇰 Tsuen Wan 0%🇩🇪 Tübingen 0%Umeå🇩🇪 Unna 0%🇳🇱 Utrecht 0%🇨🇱 Valdivia 0%🇫🇷 Valence 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 89.1% 105 of 1,704 🇵🇭 Agoo 89.2%🇵🇹 Amora 89.1%🇬🇧 Camberley 89.1%🇵🇹 Setúbal 89.1%Umeå🇧🇷 Arujá 89%🇺🇸 Grand Rapids 89%🇨🇴 Bogota 88.9%🇬🇧 Bridgend 88.9%

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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