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 92k · 838 venues mapped

Victoria

Where Victoria 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 42 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Bellingham 73 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Vancouver 📖 92 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit 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 & drink838 places mapped
11:00–21:00
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8%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
Shops & errands244 places mapped
07:00–21:45
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0%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
23%
open 24/7
Services122 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
32%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
181
umbrella days a year
46.3 m
of rain since 1981
12
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
119.3 km
to Baker
2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:21
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.1 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
14,807
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureVictoria RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.8% 222 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Pharr 7.8%🇧🇷 Salvador 7.8%🇱🇾 Tripoli 7.8%🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 7.8%Victoria🇬🇧 Hereford 7.7%🇺🇸 Layton 7.7%🇨🇭 Neuchâtel 7.7%🇨🇭 Olten 7.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 63 h🇬🇧 Sunderland 63 h🇹🇼 Taipei 63 h🇯🇵 Takaoka 63 hVictoria🇬🇧 Worcester 63 h🇸🇻 Sonsonate 62.8 h🇬🇧 High Wycombe 62.6 h🇫🇷 Agde 62.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 17.4% 298 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Alghero 17.4%🇪🇨 Guayaquil 17.4%🇪🇸 Lleida 17.4%🇬🇧 Southport 17.4%Victoria🇭🇺 Érd 17.4%🇭🇺 Nyíregyháza 17.3%🇨🇭 Olten 17.3%🇵🇹 Barreiro 17.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4% 344 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Obninsk 4%🇲🇾 Putrajaya 4%🇬🇧 Scunthorpe 4%🇯🇵 Tokushima 4%Victoria🇬🇧 Barry 3.9%🇬🇧 Crewe 3.9%🇬🇧 Redditch 3.9%🇺🇸 Sherwood 3.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.6% 215 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Portsmouth 1.6%🇺🇸 South Bend 1.6%🇲🇽 Toluca 1.6%🇫🇮 Turku 1.6%Victoria🇩🇪 Bayreuth 1.5%🇺🇸 Billings 1.5%🇺🇸 Boise 1.5%🇬🇧 Exeter 1.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 95.7% 42 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Naha 95.7%🇬🇧 Plymouth 95.7%🇨🇴 Rionegro 95.7%🇺🇸 Rockford 95.7%Victoria🇩🇿 Algiers 95.6%🇺🇸 Baton Rouge 95.6%🇿🇦 Cape Town 95.6%🇬🇧 Livingston 95.6%

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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