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 54k · 298 venues mapped

Bourges

Where Bourges 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 3 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Orléans 98 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 197 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 & drink298 places mapped
11:30–22:30
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9%
open past midnight
59%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
53%
take a midday break
Shops & errands164 places mapped
08:30–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
59%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
16%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Services97 places mapped
08:45–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
34h
open per week
95%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
131
umbrella days a year
33.1 m
of rain since 1981
659
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
151 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:04
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.9 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,249
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBourges RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.2% 208 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Périgueux 9.3%🇬🇧 Redditch 9.3%🇬🇧 Barry 9.2%🇬🇧 Birmingham 9.2%Bourges🇳🇴 Drammen 9.2%🇫🇮 Lahti 9.2%🇦🇹 Linz 9.2%🇺🇸 Lynn 9.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 45.2 h 245 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Lancaster 45.5 h🇫🇷 Lyon 45.5 h🇪🇸 Nerja 45.5 h🇫🇷 Orléans 45.5 hBourges🇫🇷 Albi 45 h🇫🇷 Angers 45 h🇧🇪 Charleroi 45 h🇬🇧 Coleraine 45 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.3% 369 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 10.5%🇯🇵 Fujieda 10.4%🇦🇷 Mendoza 10.4%🇧🇷 Boa Vista 10.3%Bourges🇪🇨 Cuenca 10.3%🇬🇧 Hastings 10.3%🇸🇪 Norrköping 10.3%🇦🇷 San Juan 10.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 52.9% 3 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Vichy 54.2%🇪🇸 Almeria 53.5%🇮🇹 Aosta 52.9%Bourges🇫🇷 Sète 52.9%🇫🇷 Niort 52.3%🇫🇷 Blois 50.9%🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 50.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.3% 208 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Sumy 2.4%🇮🇹 Vicenza 2.4%🇺🇸 West Haven 2.4%🇺🇸 Boston 2.3%Bourges🇺🇸 Camarillo 2.3%🇵🇪 Cusco 2.3%🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 2.3%🇮🇹 Florence 2.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 58.8% 327 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Valence 59.4%🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 59.1%🇭🇺 Gyor 58.9%🇫🇷 Auxerre 58.8%Bourges🇳🇱 Heerlen 58.8%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 58.6%🇳🇱 Oss 58.4%🇺🇦 Druzhkivka 58.3%

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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