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 96k · 592 venues mapped

Pau

Where Pau 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 49 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Bayonne 92 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Bilbao 📖 208 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit 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 & drink592 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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11%
open past midnight
56%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
40%
take a midday break
Shops & errands316 places mapped
08:30–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
66%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
19%
take a midday break
Culture178 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
14%
open on Sundays
28h
open per week
36%
take a midday break
7%
open 24/7
Services163 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
7%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
40%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
151
umbrella days a year
44.2 m
of rain since 1981
1,480
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
267.6 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
3
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:29
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,397
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePau RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.3% 187 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Denver 11.3%🇺🇸 Lexington 11.3%🇨🇭 Lugano 11.3%🇲🇽 Monterrey 11.3%Pau🇮🇹 Rimini 11.3%🇷🇺 Ryazan 11.3%🇰🇷 Seoul 11.3%🇷🇺 Surgut 11.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 47.5 h 236 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 47.8 h🇫🇷 Rouen 47.8 h🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 47.5 h🇮🇹 Arezzo 47.5 hPau🇫🇷 Rennes 47.5 h🇫🇷 Toulon 47.5 h🇧🇷 Uberlândia 47.5 h🇮🇹 Viareggio 47.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.2% 410 of 1,878 🇪🇬 Hurghada 6.2%🇹🇷 Izmir 6.2%🇮🇳 Kasaragod 6.2%🇨🇴 Palmira 6.2%Pau🇩🇪 Potsdam 6.2%🇵🇹 Tavira 6.2%🇷🇺 Tver 6.2%🇩🇪 Wolfsburg 6.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 40.5% 49 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Troyes 40.8%🇮🇹 Vercelli 40.8%🇮🇹 Vigevano 40.7%🇫🇷 Perpignan 40.6%Pau🇫🇷 Poissy 40.5%🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 40.3%🇮🇹 Gallarate 40.3%🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 40.2%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1% 221 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Madrid 1%🇩🇪 Marl 1%🇨🇳 Nanjing 1%🇵🇱 Pabianice 1%Pau🇩🇪 Pforzheim 1%🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 1%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 1%🇪🇸 Tarragona 1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 66.2% 277 of 1,704 🇦🇷 San Juan 66.7%🇮🇹 Taranto 66.7%🇧🇪 Namur 66.3%🇫🇷 Nancy 66.3%Pau🇵🇹 Coimbra 66.1%🇫🇷 Montauban 65.9%🇿🇲 Lusaka 65.8%🇫🇷 Orléans 65.7%

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