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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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · metro 52k · 682 venues mapped

Folkestone

Where Folkestone places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 37 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇬🇧 Ashford 22 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇧 London 📖 102 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, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink682 places mapped
10:00–21:00
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1%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands177 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Services68 places mapped
09:00–17:00
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0%
open past midnight
27%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
7%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
149
umbrella days a year
34.8 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
413.4 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:51
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.6 h
longest day of the year
6
public holidays, 2024
14,386
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureFolkestone RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.2% 288 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 1.3%🇧🇷 Vitória 1.3%🇵🇱 Świdnica 1.3%🇬🇧 Bury St Edmunds 1.2%Folkestone🇺🇸 Santa Fe 1.2%🇸🇻 Cojutepeque 1.1%🇩🇪 Görlitz 1.1%🇺🇸 Hilo 1.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 54.5 h 205 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 55 h🇩🇪 Bensheim 54.8 h🇨🇭 Wettingen 54.8 h🇫🇷 Belfort 54.5 hFolkestone🇩🇪 Görlitz 54.5 h🇬🇧 Huddersfield 54.5 h🇮🇹 Latina 54.5 h🇩🇪 Mannheim 54.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.1% 341 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Villach 13.3%🇨🇭 Aarau 13.2%🇩🇪 Erlangen 13.2%🇸🇪 Stockholm 13.2%Folkestone🇮🇹 Imola 13.1%🇪🇸 Vilanova i la Geltrú 13.1%🇬🇧 Bognor Regis 13%🇯🇵 Hakodate 13%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 8.3% 301 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Santa Maria 8.5%🇵🇪 Trujillo 8.5%🇩🇪 Kiel 8.4%🇧🇷 Chapecó 8.3%Folkestone🇺🇸 Campbell 8.2%🇬🇧 Elland 8.2%🇬🇧 Harrogate 8.2%🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 8.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.6% 195 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Ashford 3.6%🇬🇧 Chester 3.6%🇺🇸 College Station 3.6%🇺🇸 Colorado Springs 3.6%Folkestone🇹🇭 Hat Yai 3.6%🇯🇵 Himeji 3.6%🇷🇺 Irkutsk 3.6%🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 3.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 96.2% 37 of 1,704 🇰🇭 Phnom Penh 96.3%🇺🇸 Sarasota 96.3%🇺🇸 Stamford 96.3%🇲🇽 Zapopan 96.3%Folkestone🇮🇱 Haifa 96.2%🇯🇵 Narita 96.2%🇺🇸 Philadelphia 96.2%🇺🇦 Poltava 96.2%

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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