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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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇫🇷 France · metro 140k · 579 venues mapped

Le Mans

Where Le Mans 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 95 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Tours 77 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 184 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 & drink579 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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10%
open past midnight
56%
open on Sundays
51h
open per week
33%
take a midday break
Shops & errands366 places mapped
07:30–19:45
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0%
open past midnight
69%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
31%
take a midday break
Culture284 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
16%
open on Sundays
16h
open per week
64%
take a midday break
Services201 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
6%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
62%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
131
umbrella days a year
31.3 m
of rain since 1981
462
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
324.4 km
to Chaine des Puys
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:09
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,425
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLe Mans RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.9% 201 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 9.9%🇺🇸 Dearborn Heights 9.9%🇳🇱 Enschede 9.9%🇺🇸 Kansas City 9.9%Le Mans🇺🇸 Palm Desert 9.9%🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo 9.9%🇬🇧 St Albans 9.9%🇬🇧 Stevenage 9.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 50.8 h 221 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Ravensburg 51 h🇩🇪 Tübingen 51 h🇩🇪 Unna 51 h🇳🇱 Veenendaal 51 hLe Mans🇫🇷 Maurepas 50.8 h🇧🇷 Blumenau 50.5 h🇧🇷 Campinas 50.5 h🇩🇪 Aschaffenburg 50.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 12.9% 343 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Lobnya 13%🇬🇧 Maidenhead 13%🇸🇰 Prievidza 13%🇮🇳 Kochi 12.9%Le Mans🇵🇭 Manila 12.9%🇷🇺 Yoshkar-Ola 12.9%🇯🇵 Fukushima 12.8%🇬🇧 Loughborough 12.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 33.3% 95 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Asti 33.3%🇪🇸 Cartagena 33.3%🇪🇸 Cáceres 33.3%🇮🇹 L'Aquila 33.3%Le Mans🇦🇷 Resistencia 33.3%🇨🇭 Solothurn 33.3%🇪🇸 Granada 33.2%🇮🇹 Trento 33.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.2% 219 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Dormagen 1.2%🇺🇸 Eugene 1.2%🇧🇷 Florianópolis 1.2%🇳🇱 Gouda 1.2%Le Mans🇺🇸 Lynchburg 1.2%🇳🇱 Maastricht 1.2%🇫🇷 Marseille 1.2%🇪🇸 Mataró 1.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 68.8% 260 of 1,704 🇭🇺 Budapest 69.2%🇧🇷 Natal 69.2%🇸🇰 Bratislava 68.9%🇧🇷 Criciúma 68.9%Le Mans🇫🇷 Lyon 68.8%🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 68.7%🇫🇷 Agde 68.6%🇫🇷 Limoges 68.6%

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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