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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🇳🇦 Namibia · metro 418k · 341 venues mapped

Windhoek

Where Windhoek places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 115 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇦🇴 Lubango 930 km Nearest written profile 🇿🇦 Cape Town 📖 1,271 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, Aug, Sep, Oct, 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 & drink341 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
76h
open per week
Shops & errands207 places mapped
07:00–19:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
69h
open per week
8%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
64
umbrella days a year
19.4 m
of rain since 1981
6,283
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2314.3 km
to Rungwe
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:15
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.5 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
9,475
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureWindhoek RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.1% 279 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Blantyre 2.1%🇨🇿 Hradec Králové 2.1%🇧🇷 Londrina 2.1%🇨🇦 Trois-Rivières 2.1%Windhoek🇬🇧 Blackpool 2%🇷🇺 Elektrostal 2%🇮🇹 Follonica 2%🇩🇪 Fulda 2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 76 h 115 of 1,878 🇱🇻 Riga 76 h🇮🇹 Salerno 76 h🇺🇸 Spokane Valley 76 h🇵🇱 Tarnów 76 hWindhoek🇨🇦 Winnipeg 76 h🇰🇷 Seogwipo 75.8 h🇬🇧 Coventry 75.7 h🇬🇧 Bracknell 75.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 26% 218 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Concord 26%🇦🇺 Melbourne 26%🇹🇭 Nakhon Ratchasima 26%🇭🇺 Szeged 26%Windhoek🇲🇦 Bouskoura 25.9%🇨🇴 Chía 25.9%🇺🇸 Draper 25.9%🇺🇸 New York City 25.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.1% 353 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Maple Ridge 3.1%🇬🇧 Margate 3.1%🇨🇦 Milton 3.1%🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 3.1%Windhoek🇭🇷 Zadar 3.1%🇺🇸 Austin 3%🇺🇸 Billings 3%🇺🇸 Cape Coral 3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 0%🇬🇧 Weymouth 0%🇺🇸 Wilkes-Barre 0%🇺🇸 Willoughby 0%Windhoek🇨🇭 Winterthur 0%🇺🇦 Yalta 0%🇯🇵 Yokote 0%🇪🇸 Zamora 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 74.4% 218 of 1,704 🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 75%🇳🇱 Amsterdam 74.9%🇸🇪 Linköping 74.7%🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 74.4%Windhoek🇪🇨 Ambato 74.2%🇧🇷 Joinville 74.2%🇺🇾 Montevideo 74.1%🇧🇷 Paranoá 74.1%

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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