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.

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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
LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇫🇷 France · metro 79k · 462 venues mapped

Creil

Where Creil 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 23 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Cergy 39 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 46 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 & drink462 places mapped
11:00–22:30
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7%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
53h
open per week
45%
take a midday break
Shops & errands325 places mapped
08:30–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
24%
take a midday break
Services230 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
2%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
67%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
139
umbrella days a year
31.9 m
of rain since 1981
144
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
329.8 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:54
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.2 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,274
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureCreil RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.3% 227 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 7.4%🇯🇵 Tsukuba 7.4%🇩🇪 Ulm 7.4%🇺🇸 Ames 7.3%Creil🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 7.3%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 7.3%🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 7.3%🇹🇭 Khon Kaen 7.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 53 h 211 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Douai 53.2 h🇩🇪 Paderborn 53.2 h🇪🇸 Vilanova i la Geltrú 53.2 h🇩🇪 Celle 53 hCreil🇪🇸 Córdoba 53 h🇩🇪 Detmold 53 h🇳🇱 Eindhoven 53 h🇩🇪 Kleve 53 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.2% 290 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Adana 18.2%🇵🇾 Asuncion 18.2%🇬🇷 Athens 18.2%🇨🇦 Barrie 18.2%Creil🇬🇧 King's Lynn 18.2%🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 18.2%🇦🇺 Langwarrin 18.2%🇪🇸 Ourense 18.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 45% 23 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Valenciennes 45.8%🇫🇷 Orléans 45.6%🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 45.5%🇫🇷 Maurepas 45.4%Creil🇮🇹 Fano 44.8%🇫🇷 Limoges 44.8%🇫🇷 Dijon 44.7%🇪🇸 Almuñécar 44.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Colmar 0%🇬🇷 Corfu 0%🇮🇪 Cork 0%🇮🇹 Cosenza 0%Creil🇲🇽 Cuernavaca 0%🇲🇽 Culiacán 0%🇮🇹 Cuneo 0%🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 87.3% 119 of 1,704 🇦🇷 Santa Fe 87.5%🇮🇹 Siena 87.5%🇵🇪 Trujillo 87.5%🇮🇪 Waterford 87.5%Creil🇨🇷 San José 87.3%🇬🇧 Torquay 87.3%🇬🇧 Keighley 87.2%🇸🇪 Lund 87.1%

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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