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 61k · 536 venues mapped

Gießen

Where Gießen 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 168 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Siegen 56 km Nearest written profile 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 📖 211 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 & drink536 places mapped
11:15–22:00
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7%
open past midnight
77%
open on Sundays
55h
open per week
24%
take a midday break
Shops & errands261 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
21%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
Culture166 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
71%
open on Sundays
35h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Services96 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
2%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
16%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
150
umbrella days a year
35.1 m
of rain since 1981
283
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
137.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:23
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,856
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureGießen RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.9% 231 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Baltimore 6.9%🇮🇳 Bengaluru 6.9%🇧🇾 Brest 6.9%🇺🇸 Brockton 6.9%Gießen🇧🇷 Goiânia 6.9%🇨🇭 Lausanne 6.9%🇳🇱 Maastricht 6.9%🇨🇦 Regina 6.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 55 h 203 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Granollers 55.2 h🇩🇰 Odense 55.2 h🇬🇧 Bedford 55 h🇩🇪 Dresden 55 hGießen🇳🇱 Haarlem 55 h🇫🇮 Joensuu 55 h🇳🇱 Leiden 55 h🇬🇧 Margate 55 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 3.4% 438 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Alphen aan den Rijn 3.4%🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 3.4%🇦🇿 Baku 3.4%🇺🇦 Cherkasy 3.4%Gießen🇧🇴 La Paz 3.4%🇳🇱 Leiden 3.4%🇺🇦 Poltava 3.4%🇧🇷 Teresina 3.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 24% 168 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Bastia 24.3%🇯🇵 Ise 24.3%🇩🇪 Landshut 24.2%🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 24.2%Gießen🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 24%🇩🇪 Ravensburg 23.9%🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 23.8%🇩🇪 Erlangen 23.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.6% 225 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 0.6%🇫🇷 Cannes 0.6%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 0.6%🇩🇪 Dresden 0.6%Gießen🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 0.6%🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 0.6%🇺🇸 Madison 0.6%🇩🇪 Mannheim 0.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 21.1% 508 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Hildesheim 21.4%🇦🇹 Vienna 21.3%🇩🇪 Würzburg 21.3%🇩🇪 Lüdenscheid 21.2%Gießen🇩🇪 Erlangen 20.9%🇩🇪 Göppingen 20.7%🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 20.5%🇩🇪 Siegen 20.4%

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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