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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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
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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇫🇷 France · metro 54k · 275 venues mapped

Montbéliard

Where Montbéliard 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 6 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Belfort 15 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇭 Zurich 📖 133 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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Come for everything else Montbéliard does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink275 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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13%
open past midnight
69%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
51%
take a midday break
Shops & errands225 places mapped
08:30–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Services170 places mapped
09:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
2%
open on Sundays
33h
open per week
77%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
164
umbrella days a year
46.2 m
of rain since 1981
180
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
295.9 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:44
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
13,929
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMontbéliard RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 13.3% 167 of 1,878 🇦🇷 Cipolletti 13.3%🇭🇷 Dubrovnik 13.3%🇫🇷 Les Sables-d'Olonne 13.3%🇺🇸 Louisville 13.3%Montbéliard🇯🇵 Narita 13.3%🇺🇸 Ocala 13.3%🇨🇴 Santa Marta 13.3%🇪🇪 Tallinn 13.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 48.5 h 231 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Teresina 49 h🇫🇷 Tours 49 h🇫🇷 Vichy 49 h🇫🇷 Montpellier 48.8 hMontbéliard🇫🇷 Mulhouse 48.5 h🇬🇧 Perth 48.5 h🇫🇷 Vannes 48.5 h🇮🇹 Ferrara 48.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 4% 432 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Tula 4.1%🇩🇪 Aachen 4%🇳🇱 Alkmaar 4%🇷🇺 Ivanovo 4%Montbéliard🇯🇵 Muroran 4%🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 4%🇷🇺 Cherepovets 3.9%🇯🇵 Fukuyama 3.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 50.7% 6 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Sète 52.9%🇫🇷 Niort 52.3%🇫🇷 Blois 50.9%🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 50.9%Montbéliard🇮🇹 Busto Arsizio 50.4%🇫🇷 Poitiers 50%🇫🇷 Colmar 49.7%🇫🇷 Reims 49.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Miyazaki 0%🇮🇹 Modena 0%🇰🇷 Mokpo 0%🇫🇷 Montauban 0%Montbéliard🇪🇸 Motril 0%🇫🇷 Mulhouse 0%🇪🇸 Málaga 0%🇲🇽 Mérida 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 73.7% 223 of 1,704 🇧🇷 Paranoá 74.1%🇮🇹 Pistoia 74.1%🇦🇷 Rosario 74%🇭🇳 Tegucigalpa 73.9%Montbéliard🇳🇱 Geleen 73.5%🇫🇷 Le Havre 73.5%🇪🇸 Torrejón de Ardoz 73.5%🇨🇴 Medellín 73.4%

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.

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