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.
How this is made

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
🇫🇷 France · metro 87k · 1,900 venues mapped

Le Mée-sur-Seine

Where Le Mée-sur-Seine 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 52 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 41 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 & drink1,900 places mapped
11:00–22:30
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9%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
40%
take a midday break
Shops & errands1,464 places mapped
08:30–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
80%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Services909 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
4%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
57%
take a midday break
Culture826 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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2%
open past midnight
22%
open on Sundays
22h
open per week
33%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
131
umbrella days a year
30.3 m
of rain since 1981
381
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
306.5 km
to Chaine des Puys
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:57
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.1 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,253
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLe Mée-sur-Seine RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.3% 207 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Dornbirn 9.3%🇺🇸 Durham 9.3%🇨🇦 Guelph 9.3%🇨🇿 Jihlava 9.3%Le Mée-sur-Seine🇷🇺 Obninsk 9.3%🇨🇿 Ostrava 9.3%🇫🇷 Périgueux 9.3%🇬🇧 Redditch 9.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Keighley 63 h🇹🇭 Khon Kaen 63 h🇯🇵 Kobe 63 h🇫🇷 Le Havre 63 hLe Mée-sur-Seine🇮🇹 Lecco 63 h🇫🇷 Les Sables-d'Olonne 63 h🇪🇸 León 63 h🇬🇧 Lincoln 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.4% 398 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Rennes 7.5%🇯🇵 Wakayama 7.5%🇩🇪 Ingolstadt 7.4%🇨🇾 Kyrenia 7.4%Le Mée-sur-Seine🇫🇷 Lens 7.4%🇩🇪 Marl 7.4%🇦🇹 Salzburg 7.4%🇧🇬 Stara Zagora 7.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 40.1% 52 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Poissy 40.5%🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 40.3%🇮🇹 Gallarate 40.3%🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 40.2%Le Mée-sur-Seine🇫🇷 Strasbourg 40.1%🇫🇷 Angers 39.6%🇮🇹 Verona 39.4%🇫🇷 Annecy 39.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.3% 218 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Johnson City 1.3%🇯🇵 Kanazawa 1.3%🇱🇹 Klaipėda 1.3%🇸🇰 Košice 1.3%Le Mée-sur-Seine🇺🇸 Levittown 1.3%🇬🇧 Loughborough 1.3%🇩🇪 Lüdenscheid 1.3%🇬🇧 Margate 1.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 80.4% 178 of 1,704 🇬🇹 Guatemala City 80.5%🇲🇨 Monaco 80.5%🇬🇧 Swansea 80.5%🇵🇱 Gniezno 80.4%Le Mée-sur-Seine🇮🇹 Pisa 80.4%🇭🇷 Zadar 80.2%🇫🇷 Douai 80.1%🇵🇾 Asuncion 80%

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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