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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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

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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 912k · 3,125 venues mapped

Marseille

Where Marseille 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 148 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Marignane 19 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Turin 📖 270 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, 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 & drink3,125 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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9%
open past midnight
64%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
26%
take a midday break
Shops & errands1,710 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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3%
open past midnight
73%
open on Sundays
74h
open per week
13%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Services879 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
6%
open on Sundays
38h
open per week
47%
take a midday break
Culture746 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
41%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
9%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
70
umbrella days a year
23.9 m
of rain since 1981
2,471
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
264.4 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:06
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
13,942
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMarseille RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.9% 211 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Bangkok 8.9%🇲🇩 Chișinău 8.9%🇮🇪 Kilkenny 8.9%🇯🇵 Kisarazu 8.9%Marseille🇨🇦 Niagara Falls 8.9%🇰🇬 Osh 8.9%🇭🇷 Osijek 8.9%🇺🇸 Spartanburg 8.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 51.5 h 218 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Osnabrück 52 h🇻🇪 San Cristobal 52 h🇯🇵 Yokote 51.8 h🇩🇪 Göppingen 51.5 hMarseille🇫🇷 Chartres 51.2 h🇩🇪 Jena 51.2 h🇫🇷 Amiens 51 h🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 51 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.1% 371 of 1,878 🇰🇿 Almaty 10.1%🇨🇳 Beijing 10.1%🇱🇧 Beirut 10.1%🇯🇵 Gamagori 10.1%Marseille🇬🇧 Plymouth 10.1%🇯🇵 Akashi 10%🇪🇨 Ambato 10%🇯🇵 Hamamatsu 10%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 26.2% 148 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Bad Kreuznach 26.3%🇩🇪 Gerlingen 26.3%🇩🇪 Göppingen 26.3%🇧🇪 Liège 26.3%Marseille🇪🇸 Santander 26.2%🇨🇭 Winterthur 26.2%🇪🇸 Gandia 26.1%🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 26%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.2% 219 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Gouda 1.2%🇫🇷 Le Mans 1.2%🇺🇸 Lynchburg 1.2%🇳🇱 Maastricht 1.2%Marseille🇪🇸 Mataró 1.2%🇫🇷 Rennes 1.2%🇺🇸 Rochester 1.2%🇺🇸 Santa Fe 1.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 73.1% 227 of 1,704 🇨🇴 Medellín 73.4%🇪🇸 Castelldefels 73.3%🇭🇺 Nyíregyháza 73.3%🇵🇾 Presidente Franco 73.3%Marseille🇨🇿 Zlín 73.1%🇳🇱 Roosendaal 72.8%🇮🇹 Cosenza 72.7%🇮🇹 Latina 72.7%

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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