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
🇨🇦 Canada · metro 3.2M · 5,925 venues mapped

Montreal

Where Montreal places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 67 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Montreal in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 34 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇦 Toronto 📖 502 km

Typical weather

1981–present
JFMAMJJASOND
coldcool warmhot
JFMAMJJASOND
Come for everything else Montreal 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 & drink5,925 places mapped
11:00–22:00
0006121824
14%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands2,340 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
9%
open 24/7
Services1,126 places mapped
09:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
44%
open on Sundays
57h
open per week
Culture677 places mapped
10:00–19:45
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
78%
open on Sundays
51h
open per week
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
12
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
155
umbrella days a year
45.8 m
of rain since 1981
386
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2792.8 km
to Dotsero
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:14
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.7 h
longest day of the year
5
public holidays, 2024
18,302
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMontreal RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.5% 155 of 1,878 🇷🇸 Belgrade 14.5%🇫🇷 Caen 14.5%🇯🇵 Hakodate 14.5%🇮🇷 Mashhad 14.5%Montreal🇹🇭 Pattaya 14.5%🇰🇿 Shymkent 14.5%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 14.5%🇫🇷 Valenciennes 14.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇳🇮 León 70 h🇹🇬 Lomé 70 h🇲🇽 Mazatlán 70 h🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 70 hMontreal🇯🇵 Muroran 70 h🇪🇸 Málaga 70 h🇵🇱 Olsztyn 70 h🇨🇦 Ottawa 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 15.5% 317 of 1,878 🇵🇰 Lahore 15.6%🇬🇧 Margate 15.6%🇬🇧 Bristol 15.5%🇬🇧 Ipswich 15.5%Montreal🇬🇧 Aberdeen 15.4%🇬🇧 Aldershot 15.4%🇩🇪 Fulda 15.4%🇬🇧 Hereford 15.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.9% 355 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Leicester 2.9%🇨🇦 London 2.9%🇬🇧 Manchester 2.9%🇬🇧 Mansfield 2.9%Montreal🇷🇺 Murmansk 2.9%🇺🇸 Palm Bay 2.9%🇮🇳 Puducherry 2.9%🇺🇸 Rapid City 2.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5% 181 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Luton 5%🇺🇸 Manassas Park 5%🇯🇵 Mito 5%🇺🇾 Montevideo 5%Montreal🇮🇳 Ponnani 5%🇱🇦 Vientiane 5%🇷🇺 Yoshkar-Ola 5%🇺🇸 Brandon 4.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 93.2% 67 of 1,704 🇸🇪 Helsingborg 93.2%🇬🇧 Ipswich 93.2%🇲🇾 Kota Kinabalu 93.2%🇬🇧 Lancaster 93.2%Montreal🇲🇲 Sagaing 93.2%🇯🇵 Takaoka 93.2%🇵🇭 Tarlac City 93.2%🇱🇦 Vientiane 93.2%

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