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

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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.

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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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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 99k · 457 venues mapped

Besançon

Where Besançon 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 29 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Montbéliard 66 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇭 Zurich 📖 191 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Besançon 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 & drink457 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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13%
open past midnight
55%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
44%
take a midday break
Shops & errands251 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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1%
open past midnight
54%
open on Sundays
66h
open per week
23%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Services137 places mapped
08:50–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
64%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
164
umbrella days a year
57.1 m
of rain since 1981
132
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
283.6 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:49
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.9 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
13,982
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBesançon RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.8% 172 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 12.9%🇳🇴 Stavanger 12.9%🇫🇮 Turku 12.9%🇷🇺 Angarsk 12.8%Besançon🇯🇵 Echizen 12.8%🇨🇴 Ibagué 12.8%🇱🇹 Klaipėda 12.8%🇲🇽 Mérida 12.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 42.2 h 255 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Liège 43.4 h🇳🇱 Geleen 43 h🇫🇷 Bayonne 42.5 h🇫🇷 Niort 42.5 hBesançon🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte 42 h🇫🇷 Colmar 42 h🇧🇷 Criciúma 42 h🇧🇷 Cuiabá 42 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6% 412 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Zielona Góra 6.1%🇨🇿 Zlín 6.1%🇫🇷 Annecy 6%🇩🇪 Bayreuth 6%Besançon🇫🇷 Carcassonne 6%🇵🇰 Karachi 6%🇩🇪 Kassel 6%🇫🇷 La Rochelle 6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 44% 29 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Dijon 44.7%🇪🇸 Almuñécar 44.4%🇫🇷 Agen 44.3%🇩🇪 Straubing 44.1%Besançon🇪🇸 Salamanca 43.8%🇮🇹 Alghero 43.5%🇬🇫 Cayenne 43.5%🇫🇷 Metz 43.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Bayonne 0%🇫🇷 Belfort 0%🇧🇿 Belize City 0%🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte 0%Besançon🇳🇵 Bharatpur 0%🇨🇭 Biel/Bienne 0%🇮🇪 Blanchardstown 0%🇺🇸 Boardman 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 53.6% 356 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Trieste 53.8%🇫🇷 Albi 53.7%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 53.7%🇪🇸 Barcelona 53.6%Besançon🇵🇱 Katowice 53.6%🇵🇱 Warsaw 53.6%🇧🇪 Mechelen 53.4%🇫🇷 Troyes 53.1%

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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