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
🇻🇳 Vietnam · metro 380k · 485 venues mapped

Vũng Tàu

Where Vũng Tàu 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 32 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 📖 73 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Best time to visit Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink485 places mapped
07:00–22:30
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
13%
open 24/7
Shops & errands235 places mapped
06:30–21:30
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0%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
10%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
346
muggy days a year
194
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
205
umbrella days a year
64.4 m
of rain since 1981
10,884
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
212.2 km
to Cendres, Ile des
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:36
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.7 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
4,795
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureVũng Tàu RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.5% 215 of 1,878 🇵🇾 Presidente Franco 8.5%🇧🇷 Santa Maria 8.5%🇲🇽 Tijuana 8.5%🇦🇱 Tirana 8.5%Vũng Tàu🇺🇸 Wheaton 8.5%🇬🇧 Harlow 8.4%🇫🇷 Poitiers 8.4%🇷🇺 Sochi 8.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Târgoviște 91 h🇺🇸 Vacaville 91 h🇵🇹 Vila Real 91 h🇷🇺 Vladikavkaz 91 hVũng Tàu🇺🇸 Warren 91 h🇺🇸 Waukegan 91 h🇺🇸 West Haven 91 h🇺🇸 Winchester 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 51.1% 32 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Bradenton 51.9%🇺🇸 Kalamazoo 51.7%🇺🇸 McAllen 51.4%🇨🇦 Sarnia 51.1%Vũng Tàu🇺🇸 Visalia 51%🇺🇸 Topeka 50.6%🇺🇸 Daytona Beach 50.3%🇺🇸 Hartford 50.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.3% 341 of 1,878 🇻🇳 Phan Thiết 4.3%🇧🇷 Santos 4.3%🇬🇧 Stoke-on-Trent 4.3%🇳🇱 Venlo 4.3%Vũng Tàu🇺🇸 Winston-Salem 4.3%🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 4.3%🇦🇪 Dubai 4.2%🇧🇷 Londrina 4.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 12.8% 104 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Denizli 13%🇪🇸 Lleida 13%🇳🇮 Managua 12.9%🇩🇿 Oran 12.8%Vũng Tàu🇯🇵 Fujieda 12.7%🇬🇪 Kutaisi 12.7%🇨🇦 Niagara Falls 12.7%🇲🇽 Tijuana 12.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 94.7% 52 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Raleigh 94.7%🇬🇧 Southport 94.7%🇺🇸 Stockton 94.7%🇸🇪 Södertälje 94.7%Vũng Tàu🇦🇺 Bendigo 94.6%🇬🇧 Manchester 94.6%🇺🇸 Reno 94.6%🇬🇧 Scunthorpe 94.6%

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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