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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 82k · 899 venues mapped

Jena

Where Jena 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 219 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Gera 35 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇪 Berlin 📖 217 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, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink899 places mapped
11:00–21:30
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2%
open past midnight
73%
open on Sundays
51h
open per week
15%
take a midday break
Shops & errands448 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
13%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Culture283 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
48%
open on Sundays
38h
open per week
Services161 places mapped
08:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
2%
open on Sundays
53h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
136
umbrella days a year
29.9 m
of rain since 1981
304
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
345.3 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
1
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:10
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,662
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureJena RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2% 280 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Blackpool 2%🇷🇺 Elektrostal 2%🇮🇹 Follonica 2%🇩🇪 Fulda 2%Jena🇵🇱 Lodz 2%🇪🇨 Riobamba 2%🇺🇸 Winchester 2%🇸🇰 Banská Bystrica 1.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 51.2 h 219 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Yokote 51.8 h🇩🇪 Göppingen 51.5 h🇫🇷 Marseille 51.5 h🇫🇷 Chartres 51.2 hJena🇫🇷 Amiens 51 h🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 51 h🇩🇪 Bamberg 51 h🇬🇧 Barnsley 51 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7% 402 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Örebro 7.1%🇯🇵 Akita 7%🇩🇪 Berlin 7%🇩🇪 Heilbronn 7%Jena🇵🇱 Katowice 7%🇯🇵 Koriyama 7%🇯🇵 Kumamoto 7%🇧🇪 Roeselare 7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 14.6% 248 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Carlisle 14.8%🇦🇹 Salzburg 14.8%🇪🇸 Torrevieja 14.7%🇵🇾 Asuncion 14.6%Jena🇯🇵 Hiroshima 14.5%🇩🇪 Kassel 14.5%🇯🇵 Numazu 14.5%🇩🇪 Aachen 14.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.9% 222 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Funchal 0.9%🇬🇧 Guildford 0.9%🇺🇸 Hazel Park 0.9%🇸🇪 Helsingborg 0.9%Jena🇵🇹 Lisbon 0.9%🇩🇪 Münster 0.9%🇩🇪 Neuwied 0.9%🇳🇴 Oslo 0.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 13.1% 541 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 13.8%🇩🇪 Schweinfurt 13.8%🇪🇸 Segovia 13.3%🇩🇪 Bayreuth 13.1%Jena🇳🇴 Stavanger 12.7%🇩🇪 Passau 12%🇦🇹 Villach 12%🇮🇳 Payyanur 11.8%

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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