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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🇫🇷 France · metro 84k · 588 venues mapped

La Rochelle

Where La Rochelle 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 86 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Niort 56 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Bilbao 📖 352 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 & drink588 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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12%
open past midnight
57%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
35%
take a midday break
Shops & errands177 places mapped
08:00–19:45
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2%
open past midnight
55%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Services130 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
5%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
62%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
130
umbrella days a year
33.7 m
of rain since 1981
105
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
322.1 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:22
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.8 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,504
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLa Rochelle RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.5% 185 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Washington 11.6%🇨🇦 Airdrie 11.5%🇺🇸 Dale City 11.5%🇺🇸 Fort Wayne 11.5%La Rochelle🇺🇸 Lawrence 11.5%🇷🇺 Podolsk 11.5%🇫🇷 Poissy 11.5%🇺🇸 Pueblo 11.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 45 h 246 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Charleroi 45 h🇬🇧 Coleraine 45 h🇮🇹 Fano 45 h🇳🇱 Heerlen 45 hLa Rochelle🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 45 h🇫🇷 Limoges 45 h🇮🇹 Lucca 45 h🇫🇷 Montauban 45 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6% 412 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Besançon 6%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 6%🇵🇰 Karachi 6%🇩🇪 Kassel 6%La Rochelle🇧🇪 Mechelen 6%🇩🇪 Ravensburg 6%🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 6%🇷🇺 Serpukhov 6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 35% 86 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Bayonne 35.4%🇪🇸 Cádiz 35.3%🇮🇹 Cagliari 35.2%🇪🇸 Motril 35.1%La Rochelle🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 34.9%🇫🇷 Nimes 34.8%🇦🇹 Lustenau 34.6%🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 34.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Kunming 0%🇮🇹 L'Aquila 0%🇲🇽 La Paz 0%🇦🇷 La Plata 0%La Rochelle🇨🇱 La Serena 0%🇮🇹 La Spezia 0%🇵🇹 Lagos 0%🇩🇪 Landshut 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 55.2% 344 of 1,704 🇧🇷 Teresina 56.1%🇫🇷 Nantes 55.9%🇭🇺 Szombathely 55.6%🇸🇰 Žilina 55.3%La Rochelle🇫🇷 Chalon-sur-Saône 55.1%🇵🇱 Tychy 55%🇵🇱 Lublin 54.9%🇧🇪 Frameries 54.8%

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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