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 23k · 205 venues mapped

Kleve

Where Kleve places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is never close at all, where it ranks 197 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇳🇱 Nijmegen 21 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 60 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 & drink205 places mapped
11:00–21:30
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
53h
open per week
16%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands98 places mapped
07:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
22%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
8%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
155
umbrella days a year
36 m
of rain since 1981
90
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
186.7 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:27
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.7 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
14,051
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKleve RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.3% 277 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Akita 2.3%🇵🇪 Cusco 2.3%🇩🇪 Dormagen 2.3%🇻🇳 Hội An 2.3%Kleve🇬🇧 Lancaster 2.3%🇰🇪 Ngong 2.3%🇺🇦 Poltava 2.3%🇭🇺 Pécs 2.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 53 h 211 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Creil 53 h🇪🇸 Córdoba 53 h🇩🇪 Detmold 53 h🇳🇱 Eindhoven 53 hKleve🇬🇧 Lowestoft 53 h🇮🇹 Cuneo 52.9 h🇳🇱 Alkmaar 52.8 h🇫🇷 Cergy 52.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.8% 404 of 1,878 🇨🇷 Cartago 6.8%🇸🇳 Dakar 6.8%🇬🇧 Darlington 6.8%🇫🇷 Grenoble 6.8%Kleve🇯🇵 Otsu 6.8%🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 6.8%🇷🇺 Ryazan 6.8%🇩🇪 Rüsselsheim am Main 6.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 15.9% 236 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Sant Boi de Llobregat 16.3%🇹🇼 Taipei 16.3%🇵🇹 Almada 16.2%🇯🇵 Hakodate 15.9%Kleve🇯🇵 Nagoya 15.8%🇨🇭 Thun 15.8%🇯🇵 Tsukuba 15.8%🇩🇪 Bonn 15.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.4% 197 of 1,878 🇿🇦 Somerset West 3.5%🇺🇸 Annapolis 3.4%🇺🇸 Indianapolis 3.4%🇺🇸 Kalamazoo 3.4%Kleve🇮🇳 Kolkata 3.4%🇨🇾 Limassol 3.4%🇲🇿 Maputo 3.4%🇺🇸 Olathe 3.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 21.9% 501 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Schwerin 22.4%🇩🇪 Augsburg 22.3%🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 22.2%🇩🇪 Detmold 22.1%Kleve🇩🇪 Rosenheim 21.8%🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 21.8%🇩🇪 Reinbek 21.7%🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 21.7%

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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