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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CEE & Balkans16
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East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇫🇷 France · metro 123k · 685 venues mapped

Annecy

Where Annecy 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 55 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Chambéry 41 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Turin 📖 153 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Annecy 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 & drink685 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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12%
open past midnight
59%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
39%
take a midday break
Shops & errands268 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
70%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
15%
take a midday break
Services156 places mapped
08:40–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
62%
take a midday break
Culture116 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
14h
open per week
48%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
156
umbrella days a year
51.5 m
of rain since 1981
187
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
243.9 km
to Chaine des Puys
1
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:53
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.7 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
13,945
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAnnecy RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.1% 179 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Nantes 12.2%🇯🇵 Oita 12.2%🇧🇬 Plovdiv 12.2%🇷🇺 Tula 12.2%Annecy🇺🇸 Duncanville 12.1%🇬🇧 Great Yarmouth 12.1%🇺🇸 Joliet 12.1%🇯🇵 Komatsu 12.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 46 h 242 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Perpignan 46.5 h🇫🇷 Strasbourg 46.5 h🇫🇷 Angoulême 46.2 h🇪🇸 Almuñécar 46 hAnnecy🇫🇷 Caen 46 h🇳🇱 Groningen 46 h🇧🇪 Namur 46 h🇧🇪 Ostend 46 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6% 412 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Sao Jose dos Campos 6.1%🇵🇱 Tychy 6.1%🇵🇱 Zielona Góra 6.1%🇨🇿 Zlín 6.1%Annecy🇩🇪 Bayreuth 6%🇫🇷 Besançon 6%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 6%🇵🇰 Karachi 6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 39.2% 55 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 40.1%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 40.1%🇫🇷 Angers 39.6%🇮🇹 Verona 39.4%Annecy🇧🇪 La Louvière 39.1%🇫🇷 Nantes 39.1%🇫🇷 Caen 39%🇫🇷 Bordeaux 38.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.5% 226 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Thun 0.6%🇮🇹 Trieste 0.6%🇪🇸 Zaragoza 0.6%🇩🇰 Aalborg 0.5%Annecy🇩🇪 Aschaffenburg 0.5%🇵🇹 Barreiro 0.5%🇮🇹 Bergamo 0.5%🇩🇪 Bonn 0.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 69.7% 255 of 1,704 🇦🇷 Posadas 70.1%🇮🇹 Cremona 70%🇮🇹 Milan 70%🇫🇷 Reims 69.9%Annecy🇵🇹 Braga 69.6%🇬🇫 Cayenne 69.6%🇫🇷 Chartres 69.6%🇮🇹 Pordenone 69.6%

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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