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.
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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
🇧🇪 Belgium · metro 87k · 1,262 venues mapped

Kortrijk

Where Kortrijk 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 40 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇪 Roeselare 17 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 76 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, Jul, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,262 places mapped
11:08–22:00
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4%
open past midnight
73%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
42%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Shops & errands543 places mapped
08:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
51%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
Services284 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week
38%
take a midday break
Culture271 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
25%
open on Sundays
12h
open per week
17%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
149
umbrella days a year
35 m
of rain since 1981
33
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
263.9 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:44
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
14,237
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKortrijk RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.9% 261 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Troyes 4%🇭🇰 Tuen Mun 4%🇩🇪 Erlangen 3.9%🇦🇺 Hobart 3.9%Kortrijk🇷🇺 Penza 3.9%🇵🇱 Toruń 3.9%🇱🇰 Ambalangoda 3.8%🇺🇸 Asheville 3.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 42 h 256 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Colmar 42 h🇧🇷 Criciúma 42 h🇧🇷 Cuiabá 42 h🇧🇷 Florianópolis 42 hKortrijk🇧🇪 La Louvière 42 h🇪🇸 Mataró 42 h🇧🇷 Natal 42 h🇦🇷 Resistencia 42 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.6% 416 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Chapecó 5.6%🇩🇪 Darmstadt 5.6%🇨🇺 Holguín 5.6%🇯🇵 Iida 5.6%Kortrijk🇩🇪 Neumünster 5.6%🇧🇷 Pelotas 5.6%🇨🇭 Schaffhausen 5.6%🇩🇪 Schwerin 5.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 41.6% 40 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Rouen 42%🇮🇹 Matera 41.9%🇫🇷 Amiens 41.7%🇫🇷 Auxerre 41.7%Kortrijk🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 41.4%🇮🇹 Pordenone 41.3%🇮🇹 Como 41.2%🇫🇷 Lorient 41.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.6% 205 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Chernivtsi 2.6%🇺🇸 Greeley 2.6%🇩🇪 Hildesheim 2.6%🇵🇪 Huaraz 2.6%Kortrijk🇸🇮 Ljubljana 2.6%🇱🇦 Luang Prabang 2.6%🇮🇹 Naples 2.6%🇺🇸 Richmond 2.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 51.4% 365 of 1,704 🇦🇷 Ushuaia 52%🇵🇱 Radom 51.9%🇮🇹 Perugia 51.7%🇮🇹 Ascoli Piceno 51.4%Kortrijk🇫🇷 Niort 51.4%🇸🇰 Trnava 51.1%🇳🇱 Zwolle 51%🇮🇹 Mestre 50.7%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities