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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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
🇨🇳 China · metro 8.1M · 680 venues mapped

Wuhan

Where Wuhan 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 58 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇳 Nanchang 261 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇳 Hefei 📖 320 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Wuhan does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink680 places mapped
09:45–22:00
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
10%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
115
muggy days a year
64
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
138
umbrella days a year
58.4 m
of rain since 1981
4,251
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
934.5 km
to Tatun Volcanic Group
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:26
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.1 h
longest day of the year
21
public holidays, 2024
6,956
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureWuhan RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10% 200 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Szczecin 10%🇮🇹 Trieste 10%🇯🇵 Utsunomiya 10%🇫🇷 Vannes 10%Wuhan🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 9.9%🇺🇸 Dearborn Heights 9.9%🇳🇱 Enschede 9.9%🇺🇸 Kansas City 9.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Waukegan 91 h🇺🇸 West Haven 91 h🇺🇸 Winchester 91 h🇨🇦 Windsor 91 hWuhan🇨🇲 Yaoundé 91 h🇷🇺 Yeysk 91 h🇨🇴 Yopal 91 h🇭🇷 Zadar 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 20% 273 of 1,878 🇭🇹 Port-au-Prince 20%🇵🇭 Tarlac City 20%🇧🇪 Tournai 20%🇪🇸 Valdemoro 20%Wuhan🇬🇧 Grays 19.9%🇨🇳 Jiangshan 19.8%🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 19.8%🇬🇧 Walton-on-Thames 19.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.3% 351 of 1,878 🇹🇳 Sousse 3.3%🇺🇸 State College 3.3%🇷🇺 Surgut 3.3%🇨🇺 Varadero 3.3%Wuhan🇯🇵 Fujikawaguchiko 3.2%🇧🇷 João Pessoa 3.2%🇺🇸 Los Angeles 3.2%🇳🇮 Managua 3.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10% 131 of 1,878 🇰🇷 Seogwipo 10%🇯🇵 Tanabe 10%🇩🇿 Tizi Ouzou 10%🇪🇨 Tulcán 10%Wuhan🇯🇵 Koriyama 9.9%🇬🇧 Northampton 9.9%🇻🇳 Huế 9.8%🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 9.8%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities