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 93k · 434 venues mapped

Poitiers

Where Poitiers 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 8 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Niort 68 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 294 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 & drink434 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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8%
open past midnight
44%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
50%
take a midday break
Shops & errands191 places mapped
07:30–19:45
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0%
open past midnight
56%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
11%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Services133 places mapped
09:00–18:15
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0%
open past midnight
5%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
66%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Culture122 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
18%
open on Sundays
25h
open per week
24%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
132
umbrella days a year
34.2 m
of rain since 1981
916
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
221.5 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:14
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.8 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,396
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasurePoitiers RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.4% 216 of 1,878 🇦🇱 Tirana 8.5%🇻🇳 Vũng Tàu 8.5%🇺🇸 Wheaton 8.5%🇬🇧 Harlow 8.4%Poitiers🇷🇺 Sochi 8.4%🇭🇷 Split 8.4%🇮🇹 Venice 8.4%🇺🇸 Boston 8.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 45 h 246 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Limoges 45 h🇮🇹 Lucca 45 h🇫🇷 Montauban 45 h🇧🇷 Novo Hamburgo 45 hPoitiers🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 45 h🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 45 h🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 45 h🇧🇪 Temse 45 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.8% 414 of 1,878 🇧🇪 La Louvière 5.8%🇧🇪 Liège 5.8%🇫🇷 Metz 5.8%🇫🇮 Oulu 5.8%Poitiers🇩🇪 Reinbek 5.8%🇧🇷 Sapiranga 5.8%🇷🇺 Sochi 5.8%🇵🇱 Toruń 5.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 50% 8 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Blois 50.9%🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 50.9%🇫🇷 Montbéliard 50.7%🇮🇹 Busto Arsizio 50.4%Poitiers🇫🇷 Colmar 49.7%🇫🇷 Reims 49.3%🇫🇷 Cergy 49.2%🇫🇷 Chalon-sur-Saône 48.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.6% 225 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Mannheim 0.6%🇫🇷 Nimes 0.6%🇩🇪 Oldenburg 0.6%🇫🇷 Orléans 0.6%Poitiers🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 0.6%🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 0.6%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 0.6%🇨🇭 Thun 0.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 56.1% 340 of 1,704 🇵🇱 Koszalin 57.1%🇵🇱 Kołobrzeg 56.7%🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 56.4%🇧🇪 Charleroi 56.1%Poitiers🇧🇷 Teresina 56.1%🇫🇷 Nantes 55.9%🇭🇺 Szombathely 55.6%🇸🇰 Žilina 55.3%

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