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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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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.

Read the method →
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 147k · 1,140 venues mapped

Lens

Where Lens 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 69 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Arras 16 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 117 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jul, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,140 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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2%
open past midnight
85%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
37%
take a midday break
Shops & errands976 places mapped
08:30–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
15%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Culture667 places mapped
11:30–18:15
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0%
open past midnight
17%
open on Sundays
20h
open per week
33%
take a midday break
Services646 places mapped
08:45–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
47h
open per week
70%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
144
umbrella days a year
33.4 m
of rain since 1981
81
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
287.1 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:47
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,263
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLens RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.5% 275 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Valdosta 2.6%🇮🇳 Attingal 2.5%🇷🇴 Brasov 2.5%🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 2.5%Lens🇬🇧 Littlehampton 2.5%🇬🇧 Luton 2.5%🇩🇪 Lüneburg 2.5%🇬🇧 Perth 2.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 55.8 h 199 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Alghero 55.9 h🇬🇧 Carlisle 55.9 h🇬🇧 Grimsby 55.9 h🇩🇪 Bremen 55.8 hLens🇩🇪 Lüdenscheid 55.8 h🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 55.8 h🇳🇱 Bussum 55.5 h🇫🇷 Béziers 55.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.4% 398 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Wakayama 7.5%🇩🇪 Ingolstadt 7.4%🇨🇾 Kyrenia 7.4%🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 7.4%Lens🇩🇪 Marl 7.4%🇦🇹 Salzburg 7.4%🇧🇬 Stara Zagora 7.4%🇷🇺 Azov 7.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 37.3% 69 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Logroño 37.5%🇳🇨 Nouméa 37.5%🇫🇷 Mulhouse 37.4%🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 37.3%Lens🇫🇷 Angoulême 37.2%🇧🇪 Frameries 37%🇪🇸 León 36.9%🇫🇷 Chambéry 36.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Le Havre 0%🇮🇹 Lecco 0%🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 0%🇳🇱 Leiden 0%Lens🇫🇷 Les Sables-d'Olonne 0%🇧🇪 Leuven 0%🇬🇧 Llandudno 0%🇨🇭 Lugano 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 81% 172 of 1,704 🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 81.2%🇧🇷 São Carlos 81.2%🇫🇷 Cergy 81.1%🇨🇦 Sherwood Park 81.1%Lens🇮🇹 Rovereto 81%🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 81%🇧🇬 Sofia 80.9%🇬🇧 Taunton 80.9%

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