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

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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
🇩🇪 Germany · metro 70k · 212 venues mapped

Celle

Where Celle 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 138 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 52 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇪 Berlin 📖 225 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink212 places mapped
11:30–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
80%
open on Sundays
53h
open per week
28%
take a midday break
Shops & errands130 places mapped
07:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
27%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
Services62 places mapped
08:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
24%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
18%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
156
umbrella days a year
33.7 m
of rain since 1981
122
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
352.9 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:07
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.9 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,799
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCelle RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.3% 287 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Medan 1.4%🇯🇵 Shibata 1.4%🇱🇦 Vientiane 1.4%🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 1.4%Celle🇩🇪 Gera 1.3%🇿🇦 Johannesburg 1.3%🇳🇵 Pokhara 1.3%🇲🇲 Sagaing 1.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 53 h 211 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Bielefeld 53.2 h🇫🇷 Douai 53.2 h🇩🇪 Paderborn 53.2 h🇪🇸 Vilanova i la Geltrú 53.2 hCelle🇫🇷 Creil 53 h🇪🇸 Córdoba 53 h🇩🇪 Detmold 53 h🇳🇱 Eindhoven 53 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.6% 406 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Rzeszów 6.7%🇹🇷 Trabzon 6.7%🇵🇹 Évora 6.7%🇫🇷 Avignon 6.6%Celle🇷🇺 Cheboksary 6.6%🇵🇱 Kielce 6.6%🇩🇪 Krefeld 6.6%🇩🇪 Würzburg 6.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 27.6% 138 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Nerja 27.8%🇮🇹 Florence 27.7%🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 27.7%🇮🇹 Alessandria 27.6%Celle🇮🇹 Siena 27.4%🇩🇪 Saarlouis 27.3%🇮🇹 Trieste 27.3%🇨🇭 Zurich 27.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Carlisle 0%🇮🇹 Caserta 0%🇪🇸 Castelldefels 0%🇬🇫 Cayenne 0%Celle🇫🇷 Cergy 0%🇮🇹 Cervia 0%🇫🇷 Chalon-sur-Saône 0%🇫🇷 Chambéry 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 27.2% 465 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Fulda 27.6%🇦🇹 Salzburg 27.5%🇩🇪 Hamm 27.4%🇨🇭 Basel 27.2%Celle🇨🇭 Wettingen 27.2%🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 27.1%🇩🇪 Freilassing 27%🇩🇪 Berlin 26.9%

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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