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 46k · 204 venues mapped

Carcassonne

Where Carcassonne 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 77 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Béziers 71 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Barcelona 📖 204 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 & drink204 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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8%
open past midnight
58%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
Shops & errands87 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
54%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
17%
take a midday break
Services61 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
37h
open per week
40%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
129
umbrella days a year
28.3 m
of rain since 1981
1,646
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
117.3 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:18
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,180
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCarcassonne RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8% 220 of 1,878 🇰🇭 Siem Reap 8.1%🇸🇬 Singapore 8.1%🇩🇪 Aalen 8%🇬🇭 Accra 8%Carcassonne🇩🇰 Copenhagen 8%🇳🇮 León 8%🇺🇸 Livermore 8%🇯🇵 Muroran 8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 50 h 224 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Gerlingen 50.2 h🇦🇺 Launceston 50.2 h🇨🇭 Basel 50 h🇩🇪 Bremerhaven 50 hCarcassonne🇮🇹 Cervia 50 h🇩🇪 Chemnitz 50 h🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 50 h🇩🇪 Heilbronn 50 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6% 412 of 1,878 🇨🇿 Zlín 6.1%🇫🇷 Annecy 6%🇩🇪 Bayreuth 6%🇫🇷 Besançon 6%Carcassonne🇵🇰 Karachi 6%🇩🇪 Kassel 6%🇫🇷 La Rochelle 6%🇧🇪 Mechelen 6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 36% 77 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Ferrol 36.2%🇮🇹 Udine 36.2%🇫🇷 Paris 36.1%🇫🇷 Belfort 36%Carcassonne🇫🇷 Lille 35.9%🇫🇷 Montauban 35.9%🇫🇷 Royan 35.9%🇫🇷 Montpellier 35.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇵🇷 Caguas 0%🇬🇧 Camberley 0%🇬🇧 Cambridge 0%🇧🇷 Campina Grande 0%Carcassonne🇬🇧 Carlisle 0%🇮🇹 Caserta 0%🇪🇸 Castelldefels 0%🇬🇫 Cayenne 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 53.7% 355 of 1,704 🇵🇱 Lodz 54.3%🇧🇷 Recife 53.9%🇮🇹 Trieste 53.8%🇫🇷 Albi 53.7%Carcassonne🇪🇸 Barcelona 53.6%🇫🇷 Besançon 53.6%🇵🇱 Katowice 53.6%🇵🇱 Warsaw 53.6%

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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