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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 57k · 439 venues mapped

Lüneburg

Where Lüneburg places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 187 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Reinbek 32 km Nearest written profile 🇩🇪 Berlin 📖 217 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink439 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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2%
open past midnight
84%
open on Sundays
58h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
Shops & errands211 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
28%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
Culture112 places mapped
10:00–17:30
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0%
open past midnight
37%
open on Sundays
29h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Services105 places mapped
08:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
11%
open on Sundays
55h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
152
umbrella days a year
33.3 m
of rain since 1981
57
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
421.4 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:02
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,789
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLüneburg RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 2.5% 275 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 2.5%🇫🇷 Lens 2.5%🇬🇧 Littlehampton 2.5%🇬🇧 Luton 2.5%Lüneburg🇬🇧 Perth 2.5%🇸🇰 Trenčín 2.5%🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 2.5%🇩🇪 Bayreuth 2.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 58.5 h 187 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Milan 59 h🇮🇹 Pistoia 59 h🇮🇹 Piacenza 58.8 h🇩🇪 Dusseldorf 58.5 hLüneburg🇳🇴 Stavanger 58.5 h🇮🇪 Swords 58.5 h🇯🇵 Sendai 58.2 h🇩🇪 Bocholt 58 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5% 422 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 5.1%🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 5%🇩🇪 Essen 5%🇱🇹 Kaunas 5%Lüneburg🇪🇸 Marbella 5%🇨🇾 Protaras 5%🇩🇪 Remscheid 5%🇧🇷 Brasilia 4.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 10% 287 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Changsha 10%🇬🇮 Gibraltar 10%🇬🇧 Ipswich 10%🇯🇵 Kishiwada 10%Lüneburg🇭🇹 Port-au-Prince 10%🇰🇷 Seogwipo 10%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 10%🇳🇿 Auckland 9.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.8% 223 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Hamburg 0.8%🇩🇪 Leipzig 0.8%🇫🇷 Limoges 0.8%🇮🇹 Lucca 0.8%Lüneburg🇺🇸 Milwaukee 0.8%🇲🇾 Miri 0.8%🇲🇨 Monaco 0.8%🇨🇭 Montreux 0.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 27.7% 461 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Dusseldorf 28.4%🇩🇪 Trier 28.4%🇩🇪 Marl 28.1%🇬🇭 Accra 27.8%Lüneburg🇩🇪 Fulda 27.6%🇦🇹 Salzburg 27.5%🇩🇪 Hamm 27.4%🇨🇭 Basel 27.2%

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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