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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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.
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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 9.3M · 26,983 venues mapped

Paris

Where Paris 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 76 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Paris in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇫🇷 Poissy 23 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 264 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit 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 & drink26,983 places mapped
11:30–22:30
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14%
open past midnight
66%
open on Sundays
58h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
Shops & errands11,482 places mapped
08:00–20:30
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1%
open past midnight
79%
open on Sundays
79h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
Services5,299 places mapped
09:00–19:15
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0%
open past midnight
6%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
31%
take a midday break
Culture3,269 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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2%
open past midnight
35%
open on Sundays
38h
open per week
17%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
132
umbrella days a year
30.7 m
of rain since 1981
280
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
344.4 km
to Chaine des Puys
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:56
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.2 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,278
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureParis RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.2% 158 of 1,878 🇸🇷 Paramaribo 14.3%🇮🇷 Rasht 14.3%🇺🇸 Smyrna 14.3%🇺🇸 New York City 14.2%Paris🇦🇹 Villach 14.2%🇫🇷 Brest 14.1%🇯🇵 Fukuoka 14.1%🇦🇷 San Juan 14.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 58 h 189 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 58 h🇳🇱 Dordrecht 58 h🇩🇪 Dormagen 58 h🇲🇽 Hermosillo 58 hParis🇩🇪 Remscheid 58 h🇲🇽 Tlalnepantla 58 h🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 57.8 h🇲🇽 Culiacán 57.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.8% 364 of 1,878 🇫🇮 Tampere 10.9%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 10.8%🇷🇺 Maykop 10.8%🇨🇭 Montreux 10.8%Paris🇧🇷 São Paulo 10.8%🇬🇧 Cambridge 10.7%🇫🇷 Chambéry 10.7%🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 10.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 36.1% 76 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Chambéry 36.6%🇪🇸 San Fernando 36.4%🇪🇸 Ferrol 36.2%🇮🇹 Udine 36.2%Paris🇫🇷 Belfort 36%🇫🇷 Carcassonne 36%🇫🇷 Lille 35.9%🇫🇷 Montauban 35.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.2% 229 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Bologna 0.2%🇫🇷 Lyon 0.2%🇸🇪 Malmo 0.2%🇫🇷 Nantes 0.2%Paris🇩🇪 Ravensburg 0.2%🇫🇷 Rouen 0.2%🇸🇪 Stockholm 0.2%🇫🇷 Toulouse 0.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 78.8% 190 of 1,704 🇲🇹 Valletta 79.1%🇨🇴 Bucaramanga 78.9%🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 78.9%🇯🇵 Beppu 78.8%Paris🇲🇱 Bamako 78.6%🇧🇷 Maceió 78.6%🇨🇱 Puerto Montt 78.6%🇵🇰 Karachi 78.4%

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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