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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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇫🇷 France · metro 89k · 940 venues mapped

Bayonne

Where Bayonne 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 82 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇪🇸 Donostia / San Sebastián 45 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Bilbao 📖 120 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink940 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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5%
open past midnight
49%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
35%
take a midday break
Shops & errands308 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
64%
open on Sundays
71h
open per week
27%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Services197 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
7%
open on Sundays
39h
open per week
42%
take a midday break
Culture157 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
27%
open on Sundays
29h
open per week
46%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
161
umbrella days a year
48.8 m
of rain since 1981
882
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
358 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
2.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:33
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,490
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBayonne RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.9% 251 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Sydney 5%🇵🇱 Wrocław 5%🇩🇪 Würzburg 5%🇩🇪 Aschaffenburg 4.9%Bayonne🇧🇷 Brasilia 4.9%🇬🇧 Cambridge 4.9%🇺🇸 Davenport 4.9%🇩🇪 Freilassing 4.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 42.5 h 254 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Chambéry 43.5 h🇫🇷 Dijon 43.5 h🇧🇪 Liège 43.4 h🇳🇱 Geleen 43 hBayonne🇫🇷 Niort 42.5 h🇫🇷 Besançon 42.2 h🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte 42 h🇫🇷 Colmar 42 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 4.5% 427 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Irkutsk 4.6%🇧🇾 Minsk 4.6%🇵🇭 Nasugbu 4.6%🇫🇷 Albi 4.5%Bayonne🇧🇪 Charleroi 4.5%🇩🇪 Coburg 4.5%🇮🇱 Haifa 4.5%🇫🇷 Niort 4.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 35.4% 82 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Treviso 35.8%🇮🇹 Ferrara 35.7%🇫🇷 Brest 35.6%🇫🇷 Quimper 35.6%Bayonne🇪🇸 Cádiz 35.3%🇮🇹 Cagliari 35.2%🇪🇸 Motril 35.1%🇫🇷 La Rochelle 35%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇸🇰 Banská Bystrica 0%🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 0%🇫🇷 Bastia 0%🇲🇾 Batu Pahat 0%Bayonne🇫🇷 Belfort 0%🇧🇿 Belize City 0%🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte 0%🇫🇷 Besançon 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 63.8% 295 of 1,704 🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 64.2%🇮🇳 Kottayam 64.1%🇳🇱 Dordrecht 64%🇮🇹 Bergamo 63.9%Bayonne🇨🇿 Olomouc 63.8%🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 63.8%🇫🇷 Vichy 63.7%🇧🇷 Cuiabá 63.6%

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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