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 2.2M · 3,861 venues mapped

Vancouver

Where Vancouver 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 87 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Vancouver in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇨🇦 White Rock 35 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Seattle 📖 192 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Jul, 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 & drink3,861 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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9%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands860 places mapped
08:00–21:00
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2%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
83h
open per week
10%
open 24/7
Services625 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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1%
open past midnight
31%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
Culture420 places mapped
09:30–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
64h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
185
umbrella days a year
59.2 m
of rain since 1981
14
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
3
volcanoes within 100 km
67.3 km
to Garibaldi
1.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:16
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.2 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
14,827
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureVancouver RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.1% 209 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Ravenna 9.1%🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 9.1%🇪🇸 San Fernando 9.1%🇨🇦 St. John's 9.1%Vancouver🇭🇷 Zagreb 9.1%🇬🇧 Elland 9%🇩🇪 Iserlohn 9%🇺🇸 Madison 9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇹🇼 Toufen 70 h🇯🇵 Toyohashi 70 h🇵🇱 Tychy 70 h🇹🇭 Ubon Ratchathani 70 hVancouver🇵🇹 Viseu 70 h🇬🇧 Weston-super-Mare 70 h🇨🇦 White Rock 70 h🇬🇧 Wigan 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 16.7% 305 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Carlisle 16.7%🇬🇧 Redditch 16.7%🇸🇻 Sonsonate 16.7%🇯🇵 Takaoka 16.7%Vancouver🇮🇳 Varanasi 16.7%🇲🇾 Johor Bahru 16.6%🇬🇧 Leicester 16.6%🇨🇾 Larnaca 16.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.6% 348 of 1,878 🇰🇷 Daejeon 3.6%🇷🇼 Kigali 3.6%🇺🇸 Merced 3.6%🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 3.6%Vancouver🇺🇸 Bakersfield 3.5%🇨🇳 Beijing 3.5%🇲🇦 Rabat 3.5%🇳🇱 Roosendaal 3.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.2% 189 of 1,878 🇪🇨 Manta 4.2%🇷🇺 Nalchik 4.2%🇨🇷 San José 4.2%🇺🇸 Stamford 4.2%Vancouver🇬🇧 Warrington 4.2%🇨🇷 Cartago 4.1%🇷🇺 Gelendzhik 4.1%🇬🇧 Harrogate 4.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 91% 87 of 1,704 🇬🇧 Wigan 91.1%🇵🇹 Barreiro 91%🇮🇹 San Giuseppe Vesuviano 91%🇷🇸 Subotica 91%Vancouver🇺🇸 Des Moines 90.9%🇯🇵 Fuji 90.9%🇲🇽 Hermosillo 90.9%🇨🇦 Kitchener 90.9%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities