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 140k · 1,178 venues mapped

Metz

Where Metz 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 32 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Saarlouis 47 km Nearest written profile 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 📖 55 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 & drink1,178 places mapped
11:25–22:00
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11%
open past midnight
66%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
43%
take a midday break
Shops & errands576 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
43%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Culture451 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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8%
open past midnight
38%
open on Sundays
27h
open per week
21%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Services367 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
3%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
59%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
146
umbrella days a year
35.8 m
of rain since 1981
384
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
126.6 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:40
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.2 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,006
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMetz RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.8% 192 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Iowa City 10.8%🇬🇧 Lowestoft 10.8%🇵🇱 Lublin 10.8%🇺🇸 Mansfield 10.8%Metz🇧🇾 Minsk 10.8%🇯🇵 Osaka 10.8%🇺🇸 Palm Bay 10.8%🇵🇹 Porto 10.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 49 h 229 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Helmond 49 h🇩🇪 Hildesheim 49 h🇧🇷 Joinville 49 h🇫🇷 Lille 49 hMetz🇮🇹 Savona 49 h🇨🇴 Sogamoso 49 h🇧🇷 São Carlos 49 h🇯🇵 Takayama 49 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.8% 414 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Arles 5.8%🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 5.8%🇧🇪 La Louvière 5.8%🇧🇪 Liège 5.8%Metz🇫🇮 Oulu 5.8%🇫🇷 Poitiers 5.8%🇩🇪 Reinbek 5.8%🇧🇷 Sapiranga 5.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 43.3% 32 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Besançon 44%🇪🇸 Salamanca 43.8%🇮🇹 Alghero 43.5%🇬🇫 Cayenne 43.5%Metz🇫🇷 Arles 43%🇮🇹 Pavia 42.7%🇮🇹 Imola 42.6%🇮🇹 Rovereto 42.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Mechelen 0%🇩🇿 Meftah 0%🇺🇸 Merced 0%🇮🇹 Messina 0%Metz🇲🇽 Mexicali 0%🇹🇼 Miaoli 0%🇨🇦 Milton 0%🇩🇪 Minden 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 42.6% 399 of 1,704 🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biała 44.2%🇮🇹 Asti 43.8%🇨🇭 Montreux 43.5%🇪🇸 Terrassa 43.5%Metz🇧🇷 Santa Maria 42.6%🇿🇼 Harare 42.5%🇪🇸 Fuengirola 42.2%🇪🇸 Girona 42.2%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities