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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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇫🇷 France · metro 187k · 670 venues mapped

Mulhouse

Where Mulhouse 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 68 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 25 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇭 Zurich 📖 101 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Mulhouse 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 & drink670 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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9%
open past midnight
73%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
37%
take a midday break
Shops & errands449 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
41%
open on Sundays
69h
open per week
11%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Services334 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
34h
open per week
59%
take a midday break
Culture324 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
40%
open on Sundays
20h
open per week
48%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
157
umbrella days a year
38.4 m
of rain since 1981
443
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
271.1 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
13,895
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMulhouse RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.6% 214 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Gdansk 8.6%🇩🇪 Göppingen 8.6%🇲🇾 Ipoh 8.6%🇩🇪 Kaiserslautern 8.6%Mulhouse🇩🇪 Offenburg 8.6%🇵🇹 Ponta Delgada 8.6%🇫🇷 Toulon 8.6%🇷🇺 Vyborg 8.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 48.5 h 231 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Tours 49 h🇫🇷 Vichy 49 h🇫🇷 Montpellier 48.8 h🇫🇷 Montbéliard 48.5 hMulhouse🇬🇧 Perth 48.5 h🇫🇷 Vannes 48.5 h🇮🇹 Ferrara 48.2 h🇫🇷 Brest 48 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8% 392 of 1,878 🇺🇿 Asaka 8%🇹🇲 Ashgabat 8%🇮🇱 Jerusalem 8%🇯🇵 Kanazawa 8%Mulhouse🇷🇺 Obninsk 8%🇫🇷 Reims 8%🇬🇧 Scunthorpe 8%🇬🇧 Taunton 8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 37.4% 68 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Modena 37.7%🇮🇹 Lecco 37.5%🇪🇸 Logroño 37.5%🇳🇨 Nouméa 37.5%Mulhouse🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 37.3%🇫🇷 Lens 37.3%🇫🇷 Angoulême 37.2%🇧🇪 Frameries 37%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇰🇷 Mokpo 0%🇫🇷 Montauban 0%🇫🇷 Montbéliard 0%🇪🇸 Motril 0%Mulhouse🇪🇸 Málaga 0%🇲🇽 Mérida 0%🇯🇵 Nagasaki 0%🇹🇭 Nakhon Ratchasima 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 41.2% 404 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Benidorm 41.7%🇵🇱 Kielce 41.7%🇪🇸 Alicante 41.3%🇵🇱 Gorzów Wielkopolski 41.3%Mulhouse🇸🇰 Prešov 41.2%🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 40.9%🇪🇸 Logroño 40.5%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 40.5%

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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