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 66k · 349 venues mapped

Boulogne-sur-Mer

Where Boulogne-sur-Mer 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 50 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Folkestone 51 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 149 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 — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink349 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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10%
open past midnight
73%
open on Sundays
58h
open per week
40%
take a midday break
Shops & errands152 places mapped
08:00–19:45
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0%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
13%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Services100 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
2%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week
81%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
153
umbrella days a year
37.1 m
of rain since 1981
20
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
375.8 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:51
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,352
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBoulogne-sur-Mer RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.4% 196 of 1,878 🇵🇪 Pucallpa 10.5%🇲🇦 Rabat 10.5%🇺🇸 Santa Clarita 10.5%🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs 10.5%Boulogne-sur-Mer🇨🇷 Cartago 10.4%🇲🇽 Mexico City 10.4%🇺🇸 Mission Viejo 10.4%🇺🇸 Pleasanton 10.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57.8 h 190 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Hermosillo 58 h🇫🇷 Paris 58 h🇩🇪 Remscheid 58 h🇲🇽 Tlalnepantla 58 hBoulogne-sur-Mer🇲🇽 Culiacán 57.8 h🇫🇷 Valenciennes 57.8 h🇩🇪 Würzburg 57.8 h🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 57.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.5% 397 of 1,878 🇨🇺 Santa Clara 7.6%🇫🇷 Vichy 7.6%🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 7.5%🇵🇭 Apalit 7.5%Boulogne-sur-Mer🇩🇪 Dresden 7.5%🇪🇸 Dénia 7.5%🇯🇵 Fukuoka 7.5%🇲🇽 Guadalajara 7.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 40.3% 50 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Vigevano 40.7%🇫🇷 Perpignan 40.6%🇫🇷 Pau 40.5%🇫🇷 Poissy 40.5%Boulogne-sur-Mer🇮🇹 Gallarate 40.3%🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 40.2%🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 40.1%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 40.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Biel/Bienne 0%🇮🇪 Blanchardstown 0%🇺🇸 Boardman 0%🇩🇪 Bocholt 0%Boulogne-sur-Mer🇺🇸 Bozeman 0%🇺🇸 Bradenton 0%🇩🇪 Bremerhaven 0%🇫🇷 Brest 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 82.1% 161 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Palermo 82.3%🇵🇹 Almada 82.2%🇮🇳 Kolkata 82.2%🇨🇴 Tunja 82.2%Boulogne-sur-Mer🇺🇸 Johnson City 82.1%🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 82.1%🇧🇷 Sapiranga 82.1%🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 82%

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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