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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The index

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

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🇬🇷 Greece · metro 100k · 275 venues mapped

Volos

Where Volos places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 8 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 📖 142 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, Jun, 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 & drink275 places mapped
09:00–24:00
0006121824
46%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
89h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
Shops & errands98 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
15%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
7
muggy days a year
34
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
88
umbrella days a year
22.3 m
of rain since 1981
567
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
197.5 km
to Methana
30
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:08
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.9 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
12,416
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureVolos RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 45.5% 8 of 1,878 🇸🇦 Riyadh 54.6%🇪🇬 Hurghada 47.7%🇪🇸 Cáceres 46.7%🇸🇦 Jeddah 45.9%Volos🇷🇸 Kragujevac 44.6%🇦🇷 Resistencia 43.3%🇮🇪 Waterford 42.3%🇸🇩 Khartoum 42.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 89 h 68 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 89 h🇮🇳 Ponnani 89 h🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg 89 h🇺🇸 Tacoma 89 hVolos🇨🇦 Airdrie 88.5 h🇺🇸 Dallas 88.5 h🇷🇺 Kaluga 88.5 h🇺🇸 Santa Clarita 88.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 25% 227 of 1,878 🇪🇨 Puyo 25%🇺🇸 Sherwood 25%🇮🇩 Surakarta 25%🇲🇽 Tepic 25%Volos🇮🇹 Bologna 24.9%🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 24.8%🇬🇧 Liverpool 24.8%🇪🇸 Sant Boi de Llobregat 24.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 9.1% 293 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Cambridge 9.1%🇬🇧 King's Lynn 9.1%🇺🇸 Portland 9.1%🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 9.1%Volos🇯🇵 Kofu 9%🇲🇻 Malé 9%🇧🇷 Nova Lima 9%🇯🇵 Hachioji 8.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Virginia Beach 0%🇵🇹 Viseu 0%🇮🇹 Viterbo 0%🇧🇷 Vitória 0%Volos🇺🇸 Waterbury 0%🇮🇪 Waterford 0%🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 0%🇬🇧 Weymouth 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 15.4% 532 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Regensburg 16%🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 15.9%🇩🇪 Leipzig 15.5%🇪🇸 Huelva 15.4%Volos🇩🇪 Hennigsdorf 15%🇦🇹 Dornbirn 14.9%🇪🇸 Roquetas de Mar 14.6%🇪🇸 Jaén 14.3%

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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