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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🇫🇷 France · metro 203k · 1,118 venues mapped

Clermont-Ferrand

Where Clermont-Ferrand 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 90 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Vichy 47 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 346 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,118 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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13%
open past midnight
46%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
34%
take a midday break
Shops & errands485 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
55%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
18%
take a midday break
Services370 places mapped
09:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
3%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
65%
take a midday break
Culture360 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
21%
open on Sundays
35h
open per week
28%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
133
umbrella days a year
32 m
of rain since 1981
791
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
8.2 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:06
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.7 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,174
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureClermont-Ferrand RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 13.4% 166 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Traverse City 13.5%🇺🇸 Yakima 13.5%🇺🇸 Annapolis 13.4%🇷🇺 Azov 13.4%Clermont-Ferrand🇯🇵 Kumamoto 13.4%🇲🇻 Malé 13.4%🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 13.4%🇳🇱 Veenendaal 13.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 50 h 224 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Bremerhaven 50 h🇫🇷 Carcassonne 50 h🇮🇹 Cervia 50 h🇩🇪 Chemnitz 50 hClermont-Ferrand🇩🇪 Heilbronn 50 h🇳🇱 Hilversum 50 h🇧🇪 Mechelen 50 h🇩🇪 Minden 50 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.7% 365 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Paris 10.8%🇧🇷 São Paulo 10.8%🇬🇧 Cambridge 10.7%🇫🇷 Chambéry 10.7%Clermont-Ferrand🇮🇪 Cork 10.7%🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 10.7%🇺🇦 Kherson 10.7%🇯🇵 Osaki 10.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 34.5% 90 of 1,878 🇫🇷 La Rochelle 35%🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 34.9%🇫🇷 Nimes 34.8%🇦🇹 Lustenau 34.6%Clermont-Ferrand🇫🇷 Le Havre 34.1%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 34.1%🇨🇭 Lausanne 33.7%🇫🇷 Tours 33.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.4% 227 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Amersfoort 0.4%🇫🇷 Bordeaux 0.4%🇮🇹 Brescia 0.4%🇧🇪 Charleroi 0.4%Clermont-Ferrand🇩🇰 Copenhagen 0.4%🇩🇪 Erlangen 0.4%🇩🇪 Flensburg 0.4%🇵🇱 Gdynia 0.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 54.7% 349 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Chalon-sur-Saône 55.1%🇵🇱 Tychy 55%🇵🇱 Lublin 54.9%🇧🇪 Frameries 54.8%Clermont-Ferrand🇨🇴 Pasto 54.5%🇫🇷 Périgueux 54.5%🇸🇰 Trenčín 54.4%🇵🇱 Lodz 54.3%

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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