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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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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North America & Caribbean18
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PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇫🇷 France · metro 127k · 793 venues mapped

Brest

Where Brest 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 81 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Quimper 52 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 466 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 & drink793 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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14%
open past midnight
51%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
Shops & errands331 places mapped
08:30–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
60%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
16%
take a midday break
Culture324 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
23%
open on Sundays
26h
open per week
30%
take a midday break
Services223 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
33h
open per week
71%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
167
umbrella days a year
41 m
of rain since 1981
19
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
634.8 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:26
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.1 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,775
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBrest RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.1% 159 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Smyrna 14.3%🇺🇸 New York City 14.2%🇫🇷 Paris 14.2%🇦🇹 Villach 14.2%Brest🇯🇵 Fukuoka 14.1%🇦🇷 San Juan 14.1%🇺🇸 Stamford 14.1%🇷🇺 Yaroslavl 14.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 48 h 233 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Mulhouse 48.5 h🇬🇧 Perth 48.5 h🇫🇷 Vannes 48.5 h🇮🇹 Ferrara 48.2 hBrest🇬🇧 Burnley 48 h🇮🇹 Cremona 48 h🇩🇪 Gera 48 h🇳🇱 Gouda 48 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.2% 390 of 1,878 🇷🇸 Niš 8.3%🇷🇺 Odintsovo 8.3%🇫🇷 Rouen 8.3%🇨🇺 Varadero 8.3%Brest🇧🇷 Campinas 8.2%🇬🇧 Cardiff 8.2%🇬🇧 Elland 8.2%🇬🇧 Newport 8.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 35.6% 81 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 35.8%🇫🇷 Toulon 35.8%🇮🇹 Treviso 35.8%🇮🇹 Ferrara 35.7%Brest🇫🇷 Quimper 35.6%🇫🇷 Bayonne 35.4%🇪🇸 Cádiz 35.3%🇮🇹 Cagliari 35.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 0%🇺🇸 Bozeman 0%🇺🇸 Bradenton 0%🇩🇪 Bremerhaven 0%Brest🇨🇴 Bucaramanga 0%🇰🇷 Busan 0%🇳🇱 Bussum 0%🇮🇹 Busto Arsizio 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 59.7% 322 of 1,704 🇨🇿 Brno 60%🇮🇹 Matera 60%🇧🇿 San Pedro 60%🇮🇹 Pescara 59.9%Brest🇧🇪 Verviers 59.7%🇧🇪 La Louvière 59.6%🇳🇱 Arnhem 59.4%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 59.4%

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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