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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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.
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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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CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇩🇿 Algeria · metro 152k · 291 venues mapped

Zeralda

Where Zeralda 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 18 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇿 Algiers 22 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Valencia 📖 417 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
Shops & errands337 places mapped
08:00–21:30
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12%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
94h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Food & drink291 places mapped
06:00–23:30
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8%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
31%
open 24/7
Services165 places mapped
08:30–16:30
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0%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
10
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
78
umbrella days a year
26.3 m
of rain since 1981
4,306
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
607.5 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
11.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:36
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.7 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
13,968
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureZeralda RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.7% 223 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 7.7%🇺🇸 Waukegan 7.7%🇨🇭 Wettingen 7.7%🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 7.7%Zeralda🇮🇹 Cagliari 7.6%🇮🇳 Hyderabad 7.6%🇵🇹 Lisbon 7.6%🇮🇹 Pavia 7.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 105 h 18 of 1,878 🇧🇦 Tuzla 105 h🇮🇳 Visakhapatnam 105 h🇺🇸 Wichita Falls 105 h🇺🇿 Yangiyul 105 hZeralda🇺🇸 Arlington 104 h🇺🇸 Hamilton 104 h🇺🇸 Daytona Beach 103.5 h🇺🇸 El Paso 103.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 34.6% 143 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Levittown 34.6%🇺🇸 Martinez 34.6%🇺🇸 Mission Viejo 34.6%🇺🇸 Santa Rosa 34.6%Zeralda🇮🇹 Alessandria 34.5%🇳🇮 Granada 34.5%🇺🇸 Lake in the Hills 34.5%🇺🇸 Fairland 34.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 7.7% 307 of 1,878 🇻🇪 San Cristobal 7.7%🇧🇷 São Carlos 7.7%🇲🇹 Valletta 7.7%🇮🇷 Yazd 7.7%Zeralda🇯🇵 Kisarazu 7.6%🇵🇪 Lima 7.6%🇯🇵 Narita 7.6%🇨🇦 White Rock 7.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 30.8% 22 of 1,878 🇿🇼 Harare 31.8%🇩🇿 Sidi Moussa 31.8%🇶🇦 Doha 31.7%🇮🇶 Mosul 31.6%Zeralda🇵🇭 Tagaytay 30.6%🇺🇬 Kampala 29.3%🇧🇫 Ouagadougou 29%🇨🇺 Ciego de Ávila 28.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.8% 61 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Scranton 93.8%🇬🇧 Stoke-on-Trent 93.8%🇲🇽 Tepic 93.8%🇺🇸 Topeka 93.8%Zeralda🇺🇦 Lviv 93.7%🇸🇪 Norrköping 93.7%🇦🇺 Point Cook 93.7%🇺🇸 Richmond 93.7%

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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