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 134k · 987 venues mapped

Koblenz

Where Koblenz 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 175 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Neuwied 12 km Nearest written profile 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 📖 132 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 & drink987 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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6%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
23%
take a midday break
Shops & errands475 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
29%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Culture224 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
63%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
Services222 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
11%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
19%
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
36.5 m
of rain since 1981
278
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
55.7 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:29
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.4 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,929
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKoblenz RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6% 240 of 1,878 🇺🇿 Asaka 6%🇬🇧 Ashford 6%🇩🇪 Dortmund 6%🇺🇦 Ivano-Frankivsk 6%Koblenz🇮🇹 La Spezia 6%🇩🇪 Lippstadt 6%🇦🇺 Melbourne 6%🇺🇸 Peabody 6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57 h 193 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Fulda 57 h🇩🇪 Hagen 57 h🇩🇪 Hamm 57 h🇪🇸 Jaén 57 hKoblenz🇲🇾 Kota Bharu 57 h🇪🇨 Latacunga 57 h🇸🇪 Lund 57 h🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 57 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.7% 405 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 6.8%🇲🇽 Santiago de Querétaro 6.8%🇩🇪 Bonn 6.7%🇨🇴 Duitama 6.7%Koblenz🇮🇳 Koyilandy 6.7%🇯🇵 Okayama 6.7%🇵🇱 Olsztyn 6.7%🇰🇬 Osh 6.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 23.3% 175 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Riccione 23.5%🇮🇹 Tivoli 23.5%🇲🇨 Monaco 23.4%🇪🇸 Castelldefels 23.3%Koblenz🇯🇵 Kanazawa 23.2%🇰🇿 Oral 23.2%🇨🇭 Biel/Bienne 23.1%🇩🇪 Heilbronn 23.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.5% 226 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Grenoble 0.5%🇩🇪 Göppingen 0.5%🇩🇪 Gütersloh 0.5%🇩🇪 Hagen 0.5%Koblenz🇨🇭 Lausanne 0.5%🇩🇪 Lübeck 0.5%🇮🇹 Milan 0.5%🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 0.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 29.1% 455 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Gütersloh 29.4%🇪🇸 Donostia / San Sebastián 29.3%🇩🇪 Osnabrück 29.3%🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 29.3%Koblenz🇩🇪 Reutlingen 29.1%🇩🇪 Rüsselsheim am Main 29.1%🇵🇱 Przemyśl 28.8%🇩🇪 Bonn 28.5%

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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