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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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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.

Read the method →
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
🇫🇷 France · metro 163k · 781 venues mapped

Angers

Where Angers places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is vanish at lunch, where it ranks 53 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Nantes 81 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 264 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Jul, 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 & drink781 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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9%
open past midnight
44%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
40%
take a midday break
Shops & errands373 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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1%
open past midnight
50%
open on Sundays
67h
open per week
22%
take a midday break
Culture300 places mapped
09:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
33%
open on Sundays
27h
open per week
49%
take a midday break
Services242 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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1%
open past midnight
3%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
62%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
129
umbrella days a year
31.3 m
of rain since 1981
423
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
328.4 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:14
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,475
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAngers RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.7% 213 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Huddersfield 8.8%🇳🇱 Leiden 8.8%🇺🇸 Tulsa 8.8%🇮🇹 Alghero 8.7%Angers🇺🇦 Chernihiv 8.7%🇬🇧 Grimsby 8.7%🇺🇸 Kennewick 8.7%🇬🇧 Lincoln 8.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 45 h 246 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Nerja 45.5 h🇫🇷 Orléans 45.5 h🇫🇷 Bourges 45.2 h🇫🇷 Albi 45 hAngers🇧🇪 Charleroi 45 h🇬🇧 Coleraine 45 h🇮🇹 Fano 45 h🇳🇱 Heerlen 45 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.1% 381 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Nagano 9.2%🇮🇳 New Delhi 9.2%🇫🇷 Nice 9.2%🇳🇴 Trondheim 9.2%Angers🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 9.1%🇬🇧 Great Yarmouth 9.1%🇩🇪 Göttingen 9.1%🇨🇳 Jinan 9.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 39.6% 53 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Gallarate 40.3%🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 40.2%🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 40.1%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 40.1%Angers🇮🇹 Verona 39.4%🇫🇷 Annecy 39.2%🇧🇪 La Louvière 39.1%🇫🇷 Nantes 39.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.3% 228 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Wels 0.4%🇨🇭 Wettingen 0.4%🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 0.4%🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 0.3%Angers🇳🇱 Arnhem 0.3%🇪🇸 Barcelona 0.3%🇸🇰 Bratislava 0.3%🇩🇪 Chemnitz 0.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 49.5% 372 of 1,704 🇵🇱 Krakow 50.6%🇧🇪 Temse 50.6%🇪🇸 Granollers 50%🇲🇰 Skopje 49.6%Angers🇪🇸 Tarragona 49.3%🇮🇳 Ponnani 49.1%🇪🇸 Ibiza 48.9%🇵🇱 Olsztyn 48.9%

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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