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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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.
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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
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North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇫🇷 France · metro 149k · 1,056 venues mapped

Caen

Where Caen 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 57 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Le Havre 48 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 201 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 & drink1,056 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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14%
open past midnight
47%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
39%
take a midday break
Shops & errands593 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
62%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
20%
take a midday break
Culture499 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
27%
open on Sundays
32h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
Services317 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
5%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week
66%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
146
umbrella days a year
33.4 m
of rain since 1981
121
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
453.7 km
to Chaine des Puys
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:06
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.2 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,478
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCaen RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.5% 155 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Faro 14.6%🇮🇳 Mumbai 14.6%🇨🇦 Quebec 14.6%🇷🇸 Belgrade 14.5%Caen🇯🇵 Hakodate 14.5%🇮🇷 Mashhad 14.5%🇨🇦 Montreal 14.5%🇹🇭 Pattaya 14.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 46 h 242 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Strasbourg 46.5 h🇫🇷 Angoulême 46.2 h🇪🇸 Almuñécar 46 h🇫🇷 Annecy 46 hCaen🇳🇱 Groningen 46 h🇧🇪 Namur 46 h🇧🇪 Ostend 46 h🇮🇹 Imperia 45.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.6% 386 of 1,878 🇨🇿 Prague 8.7%🇦🇷 Rosario 8.7%🇨🇦 Saint John 8.7%🇵🇹 Aveiro 8.6%Caen🇧🇷 Fortaleza 8.6%🇨🇳 Fuyang 8.6%🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 8.6%🇦🇹 Lustenau 8.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 39% 57 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Verona 39.4%🇫🇷 Annecy 39.2%🇧🇪 La Louvière 39.1%🇫🇷 Nantes 39.1%Caen🇫🇷 Bordeaux 38.9%🇫🇷 Béziers 38.9%🇯🇵 Iida 38.9%🇫🇷 Lyon 38.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Bussum 0%🇮🇹 Busto Arsizio 0%🇫🇷 Béziers 0%🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 0%Caen🇵🇷 Caguas 0%🇬🇧 Camberley 0%🇬🇧 Cambridge 0%🇧🇷 Campina Grande 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 62.1% 307 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Avignon 62.4%🇵🇱 Wrocław 62.4%🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch 62.2%🇧🇪 Liège 62.2%Caen🇭🇺 Sopron 61.8%🇵🇱 Bydgoszcz 61.7%🇧🇪 Brussels 61.6%🇵🇱 Opole 61.6%

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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