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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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 374k · 3,226 venues mapped

Liège

Where Liège 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 147 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇪 Verviers 21 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 89 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Liège does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink3,226 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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4%
open past midnight
69%
open on Sundays
43h
open per week
26%
take a midday break
Culture1,404 places mapped
10:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
41%
open on Sundays
28h
open per week
Shops & errands1,382 places mapped
08:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
62%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
Services723 places mapped
09:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
18%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
158
umbrella days a year
41.3 m
of rain since 1981
141
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
104.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:35
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
14,074
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLiège RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.3% 257 of 1,878 🇵🇦 David 4.3%🇪🇸 Gandia 4.3%🇩🇪 Gerlingen 4.3%🇲🇽 Guadalupe 4.3%Liège🇬🇧 Reading 4.3%🇩🇪 Siegen 4.3%🇵🇪 Trujillo 4.3%🇺🇸 Watsonville 4.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 43.4 h 252 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Auxerre 43.8 h🇯🇵 Iida 43.8 h🇫🇷 Chambéry 43.5 h🇫🇷 Dijon 43.5 hLiège🇳🇱 Geleen 43 h🇫🇷 Bayonne 42.5 h🇫🇷 Niort 42.5 h🇫🇷 Besançon 42.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.8% 414 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Torrevieja 5.9%🇫🇷 Arles 5.8%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 5.8%🇧🇪 La Louvière 5.8%Liège🇫🇷 Metz 5.8%🇫🇮 Oulu 5.8%🇫🇷 Poitiers 5.8%🇩🇪 Reinbek 5.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 26.3% 147 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 26.4%🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 26.3%🇩🇪 Gerlingen 26.3%🇩🇪 Göppingen 26.3%Liège🇫🇷 Marseille 26.2%🇪🇸 Santander 26.2%🇨🇭 Winterthur 26.2%🇪🇸 Gandia 26.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.1% 220 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Edinburgh 1.1%🇦🇹 Graz 1.1%🇺🇸 Greenville 1.1%🇩🇪 Görlitz 1.1%Liège🇸🇮 Maribor 1.1%🇨🇱 Penco 1.1%🇩🇪 Regensburg 1.1%🇺🇸 San Francisco 1.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 62.2% 306 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Udine 62.5%🇫🇷 Avignon 62.4%🇵🇱 Wrocław 62.4%🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch 62.2%Liège🇫🇷 Caen 62.1%🇭🇺 Sopron 61.8%🇵🇱 Bydgoszcz 61.7%🇧🇪 Brussels 61.6%

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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