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
🇺🇸 United States · metro 130k · 318 venues mapped

Visalia

Where Visalia places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is open before 8 a.m., where it ranks 33 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Fresno 63 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Los Angeles 📖 271 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink318 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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17%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
94h
open per week
Shops & errands92 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
8%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
20
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
50
umbrella days a year
19.9 m
of rain since 1981
6,181
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
146.5 km
to Mammoth Mountain
3.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:46
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.6 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,984
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureVisalia RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 17.3% 128 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Birmingham 17.3%🇮🇹 Busto Arsizio 17.3%🇺🇸 National City 17.3%🇺🇸 Stockton 17.3%Visalia🇯🇵 Fujieda 17.2%🇮🇳 Mangaluru 17.2%🇪🇸 Murcia 17.2%🇺🇸 Saint Joseph 17.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 94 h 50 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Corpus Christi 94 h🇺🇸 Moreno Valley 94 h🇺🇸 Orlando 94 h🇺🇸 Toledo 94 hVisalia🇺🇸 Riverside 93.5 h🇺🇸 Temecula 93.5 h🇺🇸 Akron 93 h🇺🇸 Alafaya 93 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 51% 33 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Kalamazoo 51.7%🇺🇸 McAllen 51.4%🇨🇦 Sarnia 51.1%🇻🇳 Vũng Tàu 51.1%Visalia🇺🇸 Topeka 50.6%🇺🇸 Daytona Beach 50.3%🇺🇸 Hartford 50.1%🇺🇸 Escondido 50%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇧🇬 Varna 0%🇳🇱 Veenendaal 0%🇺🇸 Virginia Beach 0%🇮🇳 Visakhapatnam 0%Visalia🇷🇺 Vladikavkaz 0%🇷🇺 Volgograd 0%🇺🇸 Warren 0%🇮🇩 Watampone 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2% 211 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Pleasanton 2%🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 2%🇺🇸 Sioux Falls 2%🇬🇧 Taunton 2%Visalia🇦🇹 Dornbirn 1.9%🇺🇸 Durham 1.9%🇺🇸 Lancaster 1.9%🇬🇧 Lancaster 1.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 92% 78 of 1,704 🇨🇦 Saskatoon 92.1%🇺🇦 Ternopil 92.1%🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 92.1%🇬🇧 Mansfield 92%Visalia🇺🇸 Yuma 92%🇸🇪 Örebro 92%🇦🇷 Resistencia 91.9%🇵🇭 Bamban 91.8%

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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