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
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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.
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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇱🇦 Laos · metro 783k · 1,096 venues mapped

Vientiane

Where Vientiane 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 67 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇹🇭 Udon Thani 64 km Nearest written profile 🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 📖 392 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, Feb, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,096 places mapped
09:00–21:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
80%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands275 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
7%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
223
muggy days a year
51
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
166
umbrella days a year
58.7 m
of rain since 1981
10,208
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
751.6 km
to Ly Son Group
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:40
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.2 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
5,728
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureVientiane RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.4% 286 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Bandung 1.4%🇬🇧 Harrogate 1.4%🇮🇩 Medan 1.4%🇯🇵 Shibata 1.4%Vientiane🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 1.4%🇩🇪 Celle 1.3%🇩🇪 Gera 1.3%🇿🇦 Johannesburg 1.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 78 h 107 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Slough 78 h🇯🇵 Tokyo 78 h🇪🇸 Torrejón de Ardoz 78 h🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 78 hVientiane🇪🇸 Valdemoro 77.8 h🇨🇦 Cambridge 77.5 h🇺🇸 Chattanooga 77.5 h🇺🇸 Eugene 77.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 27.4% 206 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Madison 27.5%🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 27.4%🇺🇸 Salt Lake City 27.4%🇮🇹 Siena 27.4%Vientiane🇺🇸 Knoxville 27.3%🇮🇹 Genoa 27.2%🇯🇲 Kingston 27.1%🇺🇸 Livermore 27.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 7.3% 311 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Rostock 7.4%🇦🇷 Santa Fe 7.4%🇬🇧 Exeter 7.3%🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 7.3%Vientiane🇬🇧 Aldershot 7.2%🇺🇸 Charlottesville 7.2%🇦🇺 Adelaide 7.1%🇧🇷 Belém 7.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5% 181 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Mito 5%🇺🇾 Montevideo 5%🇨🇦 Montreal 5%🇮🇳 Ponnani 5%Vientiane🇷🇺 Yoshkar-Ola 5%🇺🇸 Brandon 4.9%🇵🇭 Dumaguete 4.9%🇺🇸 Lake Ronkonkoma 4.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.2% 67 of 1,704 🇨🇦 Montreal 93.2%🇲🇲 Sagaing 93.2%🇯🇵 Takaoka 93.2%🇵🇭 Tarlac City 93.2%Vientiane🇻🇳 Đà Nẵng 93.2%🇬🇧 Bournemouth 93.1%🇬🇧 Edinburgh 93.1%🇬🇧 Exeter 93.1%

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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