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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🇫🇷 France · metro 61k · 270 venues mapped

Belfort

Where Belfort 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 77 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Montbéliard 15 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇭 Zurich 📖 131 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Belfort 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 & drink270 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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3%
open past midnight
67%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
Shops & errands143 places mapped
08:30–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
62%
open on Sundays
71h
open per week
25%
take a midday break
Services100 places mapped
09:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
76%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
164
umbrella days a year
46.2 m
of rain since 1981
180
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
281.1 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:44
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
13,928
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBelfort RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.7% 273 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Potsdam 2.8%🇿🇦 Pretoria 2.8%🇩🇪 Rostock 2.8%🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 2.8%Belfort🇵🇱 Elbląg 2.7%🇬🇹 Guatemala City 2.7%🇯🇵 Ise 2.7%🇹🇬 Lomé 2.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 54.5 h 205 of 1,878 🇪🇨 Quito 55 h🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 55 h🇩🇪 Bensheim 54.8 h🇨🇭 Wettingen 54.8 hBelfort🇬🇧 Folkestone 54.5 h🇩🇪 Görlitz 54.5 h🇬🇧 Huddersfield 54.5 h🇮🇹 Latina 54.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 1.3% 459 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Nijmegen 1.5%🇳🇱 Oss 1.5%🇷🇺 Gelendzhik 1.4%🇷🇺 Kislovodsk 1.4%Belfort🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 1.3%🇵🇱 Świnoujście 1.3%🇷🇺 Kaluga 1.2%🇷🇺 Makhachkala 1.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 36% 77 of 1,878 🇪🇸 San Fernando 36.4%🇪🇸 Ferrol 36.2%🇮🇹 Udine 36.2%🇫🇷 Paris 36.1%Belfort🇫🇷 Carcassonne 36%🇫🇷 Lille 35.9%🇫🇷 Montauban 35.9%🇫🇷 Royan 35.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 0%🇫🇷 Bastia 0%🇲🇾 Batu Pahat 0%🇫🇷 Bayonne 0%Belfort🇧🇿 Belize City 0%🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte 0%🇫🇷 Besançon 0%🇳🇵 Bharatpur 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 62.5% 304 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 63%🇧🇷 Nova Lima 62.9%🇷🇴 Târgu Mureș 62.9%🇧🇷 Vitória 62.7%Belfort🇨🇺 Holguín 62.5%🇳🇨 Nouméa 62.5%🇮🇹 Udine 62.5%🇫🇷 Avignon 62.4%

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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