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.

All 24 rankings →
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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

Open the comparer →
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.

Read the method →
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.

Every city, A–Z →
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 62k · 214 venues mapped

Montauban

Where Montauban 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 78 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Toulouse 47 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Barcelona 📖 300 km

Typical weather

1981–present
JFMAMJJASOND
coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
JFMAMJJASOND
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 & drink214 places mapped
11:00–22:15
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
64%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
Shops & errands132 places mapped
08:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
66%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
20%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Services58 places mapped
09:00–17:45
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
34h
open per week
68%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
127
umbrella days a year
31.2 m
of rain since 1981
1,844
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
226.5 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:20
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.5 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,275
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMontauban RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.3% 197 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Fall River 10.3%🇮🇹 Florence 10.3%🇺🇸 Greensboro 10.3%🇷🇺 Krasnodar 10.3%Montauban🇳🇱 Nijmegen 10.3%🇩🇿 Oran 10.3%🇺🇸 Racine 10.3%🇮🇹 Savona 10.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 45 h 246 of 1,878 🇫🇷 La Rochelle 45 h🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 45 h🇫🇷 Limoges 45 h🇮🇹 Lucca 45 hMontauban🇧🇷 Novo Hamburgo 45 h🇫🇷 Poitiers 45 h🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 45 h🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 45 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.7% 395 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Hennigsdorf 7.7%🇯🇵 Kagoshima 7.7%🇸🇪 Karlstad 7.7%🇮🇳 Kolkata 7.7%Montauban🇩🇪 Munich 7.7%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 7.7%🇧🇷 Sorocaba 7.7%🇷🇺 Tambov 7.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 35.9% 78 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Paris 36.1%🇫🇷 Belfort 36%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 36%🇫🇷 Lille 35.9%Montauban🇫🇷 Royan 35.9%🇫🇷 Montpellier 35.8%🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 35.8%🇫🇷 Toulon 35.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇭🇺 Miskolc 0%🇯🇵 Miyazaki 0%🇮🇹 Modena 0%🇰🇷 Mokpo 0%Montauban🇫🇷 Montbéliard 0%🇪🇸 Motril 0%🇫🇷 Mulhouse 0%🇪🇸 Málaga 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 65.9% 279 of 1,704 🇧🇪 Namur 66.3%🇫🇷 Nancy 66.3%🇫🇷 Pau 66.2%🇵🇹 Coimbra 66.1%Montauban🇿🇲 Lusaka 65.8%🇫🇷 Orléans 65.7%🇫🇷 Bastia 65.4%🇯🇵 Fukuchiyama 65.4%

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