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 62k · 669 venues mapped

Douai

Where Douai 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 36 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Lens 19 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 104 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 & drink669 places mapped
11:00–22:30
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4%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
53h
open per week
42%
take a midday break
Shops & errands463 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
80%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
17%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Services341 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
43h
open per week
70%
take a midday break
Culture325 places mapped
10:00–17:45
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0%
open past midnight
6%
open on Sundays
20h
open per week
50%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
144
umbrella days a year
33.4 m
of rain since 1981
81
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
268.9 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:46
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,245
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureDouai RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.8% 262 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Asheville 3.8%🇨🇺 Camagüey 3.8%🇮🇳 Chandigarh 3.8%🇬🇧 Colchester 3.8%Douai🇩🇪 Hamm 3.8%🇹🇳 Hammamet 3.8%🇮🇳 Jaipur 3.8%🇮🇩 Jakarta 3.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 53.2 h 210 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Breda 53.5 h🇩🇪 Coburg 53.5 h🇬🇧 Preston 53.5 h🇩🇪 Bielefeld 53.2 hDouai🇩🇪 Paderborn 53.2 h🇪🇸 Vilanova i la Geltrú 53.2 h🇩🇪 Celle 53 h🇫🇷 Creil 53 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.7% 395 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Augsburg 7.8%🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 7.8%🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 7.8%🇦🇷 Cordoba 7.7%Douai🇩🇪 Gerlingen 7.7%🇩🇪 Hamburg 7.7%🇩🇪 Hennigsdorf 7.7%🇯🇵 Kagoshima 7.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 42.3% 36 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Arles 43%🇮🇹 Pavia 42.7%🇮🇹 Imola 42.6%🇮🇹 Rovereto 42.6%Douai🇮🇹 Piacenza 42.3%🇫🇷 Toulouse 42.3%🇮🇹 Milan 42%🇫🇷 Rouen 42%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Dearborn Heights 0%🇩🇪 Dessau 0%🇩🇪 Detmold 0%🇳🇱 Deventer 0%Douai🇪🇸 Dénia 0%🇺🇸 Easton 0%🇺🇸 Eau Claire 0%🇮🇱 Eilat 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 80.1% 180 of 1,704 🇵🇱 Gniezno 80.4%🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 80.4%🇮🇹 Pisa 80.4%🇭🇷 Zadar 80.2%Douai🇵🇾 Asuncion 80%🇨🇦 Charlottetown 80%🇨🇳 Fangshan 80%🇮🇹 Ferrara 80%

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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