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
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 119k · 1,108 venues mapped

Osnabrück

Where Osnabrück places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is never close at all, where it ranks 206 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Bielefeld 42 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 199 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,108 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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6%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
52h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
Shops & errands623 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
29%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
Services311 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
12%
open on Sundays
46h
open per week
41%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Culture226 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
52%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
154
umbrella days a year
34.5 m
of rain since 1981
124
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
248.3 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:17
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.8 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,929
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureOsnabrück RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.5% 245 of 1,878 🇧🇳 Bandar Seri Begawan 5.5%🇦🇺 Brisbane 5.5%🇩🇪 Hamburg 5.5%🇫🇷 Marignane 5.5%Osnabrück🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen 5.5%🇬🇧 Southampton 5.5%🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 5.5%🇩🇪 Augsburg 5.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 52 h 216 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Vicenza 52.2 h🇬🇧 Colchester 52 h🇩🇪 Kehl 52 h🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 52 hOsnabrück🇻🇪 San Cristobal 52 h🇯🇵 Yokote 51.8 h🇩🇪 Göppingen 51.5 h🇫🇷 Marseille 51.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 4.8% 424 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Toulouse 4.9%🇵🇱 Gniezno 4.8%🇪🇨 Latacunga 4.8%🇺🇦 Lutsk 4.8%Osnabrück🇨🇴 Pasto 4.8%🇵🇱 Poznan 4.8%🇺🇦 Rivne 4.8%🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 4.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 14% 254 of 1,878 🇵🇹 Vila Real 14.3%🇩🇪 Magdeburg 14.2%🇩🇪 Wilhelmshaven 14.2%🇮🇹 Caserta 14.1%Osnabrück🇵🇹 Ponta Delgada 14%🇯🇵 Fukuoka 13.9%🇩🇪 Gera 13.9%🇯🇵 Kumagaya 13.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 2.5% 206 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Kenosha 2.5%🇺🇸 Layton 2.5%🇺🇸 Livermore 2.5%🇺🇸 Morgantown 2.5%Osnabrück🇧🇬 Plovdiv 2.5%🇬🇧 Plymouth 2.5%🇺🇸 Portland 2.5%🇺🇸 Poway 2.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 29.3% 454 of 1,704 🇨🇭 Zurich 29.9%🇩🇪 Unna 29.8%🇩🇪 Gütersloh 29.4%🇪🇸 Donostia / San Sebastián 29.3%Osnabrück🇩🇪 Wiesbaden 29.3%🇩🇪 Koblenz 29.1%🇩🇪 Reutlingen 29.1%🇩🇪 Rüsselsheim am Main 29.1%

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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