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

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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.

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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 132k · 402 venues mapped

Nimes

Where Nimes 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 88 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Arles 28 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Turin 📖 298 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 — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink402 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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12%
open past midnight
55%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
35%
take a midday break
Shops & errands231 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
71h
open per week
22%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Services127 places mapped
08:30–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
4%
open on Sundays
39h
open per week
46%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
88
umbrella days a year
33.1 m
of rain since 1981
2,770
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
237.6 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:08
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.5 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,035
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureNimes RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.4% 176 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Yalova 12.5%🇭🇰 Hong Kong 12.4%🇺🇸 Lansing 12.4%🇫🇷 Lyon 12.4%Nimes🇺🇸 Providence 12.4%🇺🇸 Sacramento 12.4%🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 12.4%🇮🇹 Bologna 12.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 52.5 h 214 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 52.5 h🇮🇹 Livorno 52.5 h🇲🇨 Monaco 52.5 h🇫🇷 Nice 52.5 hNimes🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 52.5 h🇫🇷 Royan 52.5 h🇩🇪 Neuwied 52.2 h🇮🇹 Vicenza 52.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 12.4% 348 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Matsue 12.5%🇫🇷 Saint-Louis 12.5%🇬🇧 Brighton 12.4%🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 12.4%Nimes🇵🇹 Coimbra 12.3%🇷🇴 Iași 12.3%🇪🇸 Madrid 12.3%🇬🇧 Pontefract 12.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 34.8% 88 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Cagliari 35.2%🇪🇸 Motril 35.1%🇫🇷 La Rochelle 35%🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 34.9%Nimes🇦🇹 Lustenau 34.6%🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 34.5%🇫🇷 Le Havre 34.1%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 34.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.6% 225 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe 0.6%🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 0.6%🇺🇸 Madison 0.6%🇩🇪 Mannheim 0.6%Nimes🇩🇪 Oldenburg 0.6%🇫🇷 Orléans 0.6%🇫🇷 Poitiers 0.6%🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 0.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 71.6% 239 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Vigevano 71.9%🇪🇸 Madrid 71.8%🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 71.8%🇫🇷 Toulouse 71.7%Nimes🇮🇹 Bologna 71.4%🇮🇹 Brescia 71.4%🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 71.4%🇳🇮 Managua 71.4%

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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