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 67k · 204 venues mapped

Chartres

Where Chartres 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 64 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Maurepas 48 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 78 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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2%
open past midnight
55%
open on Sundays
51h
open per week
38%
take a midday break
Shops & errands109 places mapped
08:00–19:45
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0%
open past midnight
70%
open on Sundays
69h
open per week
28%
take a midday break
11%
open 24/7
Services83 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
35h
open per week
52%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
131
umbrella days a year
29.5 m
of rain since 1981
275
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
316.7 km
to Chaine des Puys
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:02
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.1 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,336
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureChartres RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.8% 282 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Crewe 1.9%🇬🇧 High Wycombe 1.9%🇬🇧 Margate 1.9%🇧🇷 Natal 1.9%Chartres🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 1.8%🇳🇱 Geleen 1.8%🇹🇭 Hat Yai 1.8%🇮🇩 Malang 1.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 51.2 h 219 of 1,878 🇻🇪 San Cristobal 52 h🇯🇵 Yokote 51.8 h🇩🇪 Göppingen 51.5 h🇫🇷 Marseille 51.5 hChartres🇩🇪 Jena 51.2 h🇫🇷 Amiens 51 h🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 51 h🇩🇪 Bamberg 51 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 12.7% 345 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Fukushima 12.8%🇬🇧 Loughborough 12.8%🇮🇳 Mumbai 12.8%🇮🇷 Yazd 12.8%Chartres🇯🇵 Fuji 12.7%🇲🇽 Mexico City 12.6%🇧🇬 Sofia 12.6%🇵🇭 Bamban 12.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 38.2% 64 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Cremona 38.7%🇮🇹 Perugia 38.5%🇮🇹 Brescia 38.4%🇩🇪 Kehl 38.3%Chartres🇫🇷 Rennes 37.9%🇮🇹 Modena 37.7%🇮🇹 Lecco 37.5%🇪🇸 Logroño 37.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Chambéry 0%🇧🇷 Chapecó 0%🇺🇸 Charleston 0%🇺🇸 Charlottesville 0%Chartres🇲🇽 Cholula 0%🇨🇳 Chongqing 0%🇨🇴 Chía 0%🇲🇽 Ciudad Juárez 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 69.6% 256 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Reims 69.9%🇫🇷 Annecy 69.7%🇵🇹 Braga 69.6%🇬🇫 Cayenne 69.6%Chartres🇮🇹 Pordenone 69.6%🇫🇷 Arras 69.4%🇧🇦 Sarajevo 69.4%🇭🇺 Budapest 69.2%

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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