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
Tools

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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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.
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.

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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 393k · 1,911 venues mapped

Nice

Where Nice 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 101 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇲🇨 Monaco 13 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Turin 📖 156 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 & drink1,911 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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8%
open past midnight
68%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
32%
take a midday break
Shops & errands725 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
Services409 places mapped
08:45–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
4%
open on Sundays
38h
open per week
46%
take a midday break
Culture206 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
62%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
24%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
40
muggy days a year
19
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
95
umbrella days a year
30.6 m
of rain since 1981
14
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
410 km
to Chaine des Puys
2.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:57
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
13,804
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNice RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.2% 218 of 1,878 🇰🇷 Daejeon 8.2%🇳🇱 Haarlem 8.2%🇷🇺 Moscow 8.2%🇫🇷 Nancy 8.2%Nice🇸🇻 San Salvador 8.2%🇲🇽 Tulum 8.2%🇺🇸 White Plains 8.2%🇫🇷 Bastia 8.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 52.5 h 214 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Imola 52.5 h🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 52.5 h🇮🇹 Livorno 52.5 h🇲🇨 Monaco 52.5 hNice🇫🇷 Nimes 52.5 h🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 52.5 h🇫🇷 Royan 52.5 h🇩🇪 Neuwied 52.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 9.2% 380 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Innsbruck 9.2%🇮🇷 Karaj 9.2%🇯🇵 Nagano 9.2%🇮🇳 New Delhi 9.2%Nice🇳🇴 Trondheim 9.2%🇫🇷 Angers 9.1%🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 9.1%🇬🇧 Great Yarmouth 9.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 32.5% 101 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Vannes 33%🇮🇹 Parma 32.7%🇧🇪 Namur 32.6%🇵🇹 Braga 32.5%Nice🇪🇸 A Coruña 32.4%🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 32.4%🇫🇷 Grenoble 32.4%🇨🇭 Schaffhausen 32.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.5% 226 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Lausanne 0.5%🇩🇪 Lübeck 0.5%🇮🇹 Milan 0.5%🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 0.5%Nice🇺🇸 Norristown 0.5%🇦🇷 Rosario 0.5%🇺🇸 Temecula 0.5%🇮🇹 Treviso 0.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 81.7% 165 of 1,704 🇨🇦 Nanaimo 81.8%🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 81.8%🇨🇱 Valparaíso 81.8%🇧🇷 Aracaju 81.7%Nice🇷🇴 Timișoara 81.7%🇧🇷 Fortaleza 81.6%🇨🇷 Cartago 81.5%🇮🇹 Varese 81.5%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities