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 47k · 265 venues mapped

Blois

Where Blois 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 5 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Tours 52 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 159 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 & drink265 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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9%
open past midnight
67%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
51%
take a midday break
Shops & errands130 places mapped
08:30–19:30
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2%
open past midnight
65%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
18%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
128
umbrella days a year
30.6 m
of rain since 1981
859
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
237.3 km
to Chaine des Puys
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:06
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,336
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBlois RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.8% 212 of 1,878 🇱🇹 Vilnius 8.9%🇸🇪 Örebro 8.9%🇨🇦 Barrie 8.8%🇺🇦 Bila Tserkva 8.8%Blois🇦🇱 Durrës 8.8%🇪🇸 Granollers 8.8%🇬🇧 Huddersfield 8.8%🇳🇱 Leiden 8.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 46.5 h 240 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Pesaro 47 h🇩🇪 Zwickau 47 h🇳🇱 Deventer 46.8 h🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 46.8 hBlois🇧🇷 Curitiba 46.5 h🇫🇷 Perpignan 46.5 h🇫🇷 Strasbourg 46.5 h🇫🇷 Angoulême 46.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 1.8% 454 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Agen 1.9%🇩🇪 Lüdenscheid 1.9%🇫🇷 Quimper 1.9%🇷🇺 Yeysk 1.9%Blois🇩🇪 Detmold 1.8%🇳🇱 Gouda 1.8%🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 1.7%🇺🇦 Chernivtsi 1.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 50.9% 5 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Aosta 52.9%🇫🇷 Bourges 52.9%🇫🇷 Sète 52.9%🇫🇷 Niort 52.3%Blois🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 50.9%🇫🇷 Montbéliard 50.7%🇮🇹 Busto Arsizio 50.4%🇫🇷 Poitiers 50%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.8% 213 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Albuquerque 1.8%🇬🇧 Aldershot 1.8%🇺🇸 Bakersfield 1.8%🇧🇳 Bandar Seri Begawan 1.8%Blois🇨🇿 Brno 1.8%🇬🇧 Chelmsford 1.8%🇹🇭 Chiang Mai 1.8%🇺🇸 Erie 1.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 64.7% 287 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Lugo 65%🇭🇷 Osijek 65%🇮🇹 Modena 64.9%🇮🇹 Venice 64.9%Blois🇵🇱 Gdynia 64.7%🇵🇱 Toruń 64.7%🇳🇱 Nijmegen 64.5%🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 64.4%

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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