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.
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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 337k · 2,495 venues mapped

Montpellier

Where Montpellier 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 79 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Sète 27 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Barcelona 📖 284 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 & drink2,495 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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11%
open past midnight
62%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
Shops & errands1,254 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
73%
open on Sundays
71h
open per week
30%
take a midday break
Culture814 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
7%
open on Sundays
26h
open per week
52%
take a midday break
Services586 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
2%
open on Sundays
37h
open per week
49%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
4
muggy days a year
2
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
85
umbrella days a year
26.4 m
of rain since 1981
1,582
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
194.2 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:11
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,068
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMontpellier RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11% 190 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Dordrecht 11%🇺🇸 Easton 11%🇺🇸 Fair Oaks 11%🇪🇸 Fuengirola 11%Montpellier🇬🇧 Pontefract 11%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 11%🇺🇸 West Haven 11%🇷🇴 Craiova 10.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 48.8 h 230 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Takayama 49 h🇧🇷 Teresina 49 h🇫🇷 Tours 49 h🇫🇷 Vichy 49 hMontpellier🇫🇷 Montbéliard 48.5 h🇫🇷 Mulhouse 48.5 h🇬🇧 Perth 48.5 h🇫🇷 Vannes 48.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.3% 389 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Cuernavaca 8.3%🇵🇱 Gorzów Wielkopolski 8.3%🇸🇪 Lund 8.3%🇪🇨 Manta 8.3%Montpellier🇷🇸 Niš 8.3%🇷🇺 Odintsovo 8.3%🇫🇷 Rouen 8.3%🇨🇺 Varadero 8.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 35.8% 79 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Carcassonne 36%🇫🇷 Lille 35.9%🇫🇷 Montauban 35.9%🇫🇷 Royan 35.9%Montpellier🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 35.8%🇫🇷 Toulon 35.8%🇮🇹 Treviso 35.8%🇮🇹 Ferrara 35.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.1% 230 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Toulouse 0.2%🇨🇭 Zurich 0.2%🇨🇭 Bern 0.1%🇧🇪 Brussels 0.1%Montpellier🇩🇪 Stuttgart 0.1%🇳🇱 's-Hertogenbosch 0%🇩🇪 Aalen 0%🇨🇭 Aarau 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 72.7% 229 of 1,704 🇳🇱 Roosendaal 72.8%🇮🇹 Cosenza 72.7%🇮🇹 Latina 72.7%🇧🇷 Londrina 72.7%Montpellier🇫🇷 Bordeaux 72.6%🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 72.6%🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 72.5%🇧🇷 Manaus 72.3%

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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