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
🇩🇪 Germany · metro 53k · 395 venues mapped

Fulda

Where Fulda places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 193 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Schweinfurt 68 km Nearest written profile 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 📖 274 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink395 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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2%
open past midnight
77%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
18%
take a midday break
Shops & errands220 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
28%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Culture105 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
43%
open on Sundays
28h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Services82 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
5%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
154
umbrella days a year
36.8 m
of rain since 1981
198
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
204.8 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:19
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,786
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureFulda RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2% 280 of 1,878 🇳🇦 Windhoek 2.1%🇬🇧 Blackpool 2%🇷🇺 Elektrostal 2%🇮🇹 Follonica 2%Fulda🇩🇪 Jena 2%🇵🇱 Lodz 2%🇪🇨 Riobamba 2%🇺🇸 Winchester 2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57 h 193 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Avignon 57 h🇮🇹 Como 57 h🇬🇧 Darlington 57 h🇧🇷 Fortaleza 57 hFulda🇩🇪 Hagen 57 h🇩🇪 Hamm 57 h🇪🇸 Jaén 57 h🇩🇪 Koblenz 57 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 15.4% 318 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Ipswich 15.5%🇨🇦 Montreal 15.5%🇬🇧 Aberdeen 15.4%🇬🇧 Aldershot 15.4%Fulda🇬🇧 Hereford 15.4%🇯🇵 Isesaki 15.4%🇯🇵 Niigata 15.4%🇮🇹 Perugia 15.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 17.9% 222 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Cordoba 18.3%🇪🇸 Marbella 18.3%🇵🇹 Lagos 18.2%🇩🇪 Kempten (Allgäu) 18%Fulda🇵🇹 Portimão 17.9%🇩🇪 Chemnitz 17.8%🇹🇼 Miaoli 17.8%🇩🇪 Passau 17.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Freilassing 0%🇨🇿 Frýdek-Místek 0%🇪🇸 Fuengirola 0%🇯🇵 Fujikawaguchiko 0%Fulda🇨🇳 Fuyang 0%🇮🇪 Galway 0%🇪🇸 Gandia 0%🇩🇪 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 27.6% 462 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Trier 28.4%🇩🇪 Marl 28.1%🇬🇭 Accra 27.8%🇩🇪 Lüneburg 27.7%Fulda🇦🇹 Salzburg 27.5%🇩🇪 Hamm 27.4%🇨🇭 Basel 27.2%🇩🇪 Celle 27.2%

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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