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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Western Europe20
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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇩🇪 Germany · metro 219k · 1,170 venues mapped

Aachen

Where Aachen 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 181 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇳🇱 Heerlen 14 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 85 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,170 places mapped
11:30–22:00
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
79%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
Shops & errands746 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
30%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Services223 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
37h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
Culture209 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
35%
open on Sundays
23h
open per week
8%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
150
umbrella days a year
35.1 m
of rain since 1981
253
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
86.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:33
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,040
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAachen RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.1% 239 of 1,878 🇭🇳 Tegucigalpa 6.2%🇮🇳 Udaipur 6.2%🇳🇿 Wellington 6.2%🇦🇺 Wollongong 6.2%Aachen🇬🇧 Chester 6.1%🇺🇸 Draper 6.1%🇯🇵 Hiroshima 6.1%🇷🇺 Odintsovo 6.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 60 h 181 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Zwolle 60.8 h🇩🇪 Lübeck 60.5 h🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 60.5 h🇦🇺 Perth 60.2 hAachen🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 60 h🇮🇹 Bari 60 h🇧🇷 Belém 60 h🇦🇹 Bregenz 60 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 4% 432 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Ivano-Frankivsk 4.1%🇷🇺 Kemerovo 4.1%🇸🇪 Linköping 4.1%🇷🇺 Tula 4.1%Aachen🇳🇱 Alkmaar 4%🇷🇺 Ivanovo 4%🇫🇷 Montbéliard 4%🇯🇵 Muroran 4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 14.4% 250 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Jena 14.6%🇯🇵 Hiroshima 14.5%🇩🇪 Kassel 14.5%🇯🇵 Numazu 14.5%Aachen🇧🇷 Aracaju 14.3%🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 14.3%🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 14.3%🇪🇸 Huelva 14.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.8% 223 of 1,878 🇮🇸 Reykjavik 0.9%🇪🇸 Sant Boi de Llobregat 0.9%🇺🇸 Santa Rosa 0.9%🇺🇸 Warren 0.9%Aachen🇳🇱 Alkmaar 0.8%🇬🇧 Bath 0.8%🇺🇸 Bellingham 0.8%🇩🇪 Bielefeld 0.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 30.1% 450 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Vic 30.4%🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 30.4%🇩🇪 Bocholt 30.2%🇪🇸 Murcia 30.2%Aachen🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 29.9%🇩🇪 Krefeld 29.9%🇨🇭 Zurich 29.9%🇩🇪 Unna 29.8%

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, shops open on sunday.

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