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 198k · 2,213 venues mapped

Maurepas

Where Maurepas 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 22 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Poissy 20 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 32 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 & drink2,213 places mapped
11:30–22:30
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6%
open past midnight
65%
open on Sundays
51h
open per week
45%
take a midday break
Shops & errands1,456 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
81%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
20%
take a midday break
Services980 places mapped
09:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
2%
open on Sundays
37h
open per week
59%
take a midday break
Culture936 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
30%
open on Sundays
27h
open per week
42%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
133
umbrella days a year
31 m
of rain since 1981
204
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
340.6 km
to Chaine des Puys
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:58
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.2 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,308
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMaurepas RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.7% 243 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Hirosaki 5.7%🇹🇼 Hsinchu 5.7%🇻🇳 Huế 5.7%🇸🇮 Ljubljana 5.7%Maurepas🇧🇪 Mechelen 5.7%🇮🇩 Pekanbaru 5.7%🇺🇸 Redding 5.7%🇬🇧 Scarborough 5.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 50.8 h 221 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Tübingen 51 h🇩🇪 Unna 51 h🇳🇱 Veenendaal 51 h🇫🇷 Le Mans 50.8 hMaurepas🇧🇷 Blumenau 50.5 h🇧🇷 Campinas 50.5 h🇩🇪 Aschaffenburg 50.2 h🇩🇪 Gerlingen 50.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.5% 357 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Derby 11.5%🇬🇧 Huddersfield 11.5%🇬🇷 Kos 11.5%🇿🇲 Lusaka 11.5%Maurepas🇮🇹 Piacenza 11.5%🇮🇪 Waterford 11.5%🇲🇽 Zapopan 11.5%🇪🇸 Alicante 11.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 45.4% 22 of 1,878 🇦🇷 San Juan 46.2%🇫🇷 Valenciennes 45.8%🇫🇷 Orléans 45.6%🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 45.5%Maurepas🇫🇷 Creil 45%🇮🇹 Fano 44.8%🇫🇷 Limoges 44.8%🇫🇷 Dijon 44.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.3% 228 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Gdansk 0.3%🇩🇪 Gerlingen 0.3%🇩🇪 Heidelberg 0.3%🇱🇺 Luxembourg 0.3%Maurepas🇩🇪 Potsdam 0.3%🇩🇪 Reutlingen 0.3%🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 0.3%🇫🇷 Toulon 0.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 80.8% 174 of 1,704 🇧🇬 Sofia 80.9%🇬🇧 Taunton 80.9%🇫🇷 Toulon 80.9%🇺🇸 Layton 80.8%Maurepas🇧🇦 Banja Luka 80.7%🇺🇸 Anchorage 80.6%🇧🇷 Macapá 80.6%🇬🇹 Guatemala City 80.5%

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