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
🇩🇪 Germany · metro 74k · 1,174 venues mapped

Remscheid

Where Remscheid places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 189 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇩🇪 Wuppertal 9 km Nearest written profile 🇳🇱 Eindhoven 📖 123 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Remscheid does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,174 places mapped
11:00–22:00
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6%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
58h
open per week
13%
take a midday break
Shops & errands772 places mapped
07:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
23%
open on Sundays
81h
open per week
3%
open 24/7
Services272 places mapped
08:15–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
6%
open on Sundays
54h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Culture270 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
35%
open on Sundays
27h
open per week
11%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
171
umbrella days a year
42.9 m
of rain since 1981
214
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
114.9 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:26
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.6 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,970
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureRemscheid RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.6% 244 of 1,878 🇮🇱 Netanya 5.6%🇧🇷 Pelotas 5.6%🇻🇳 Phú Quốc 5.6%🇬🇧 Reigate 5.6%Remscheid🇨🇭 Schaffhausen 5.6%🇮🇩 Seririt 5.6%🇺🇦 Ternopil 5.6%🇵🇱 Tychy 5.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 58 h 189 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Dordrecht 58 h🇩🇪 Dormagen 58 h🇲🇽 Hermosillo 58 h🇫🇷 Paris 58 hRemscheid🇲🇽 Tlalnepantla 58 h🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 57.8 h🇲🇽 Culiacán 57.8 h🇫🇷 Valenciennes 57.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5% 422 of 1,878 🇱🇹 Kaunas 5%🇩🇪 Lüneburg 5%🇪🇸 Marbella 5%🇨🇾 Protaras 5%Remscheid🇧🇷 Brasilia 4.9%🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 4.9%🇩🇪 Pforzheim 4.9%🇲🇾 Seremban 4.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 13.1% 261 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Paderborn 13.3%🇧🇷 Araraquara 13.2%🇯🇵 Beppu 13.2%🇯🇵 Osaka 13.2%Remscheid🇵🇹 Barreiro 13%🇩🇪 Hagen 13%🇩🇪 Oldenburg 13%🇯🇵 Echizen 12.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.8% 223 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Montreux 0.8%🇺🇸 New Hope 0.8%🇬🇧 Newport 0.8%🇩🇪 Passau 0.8%Remscheid🇷🇴 Sibiu 0.8%🇺🇸 Ann Arbor 0.7%🇧🇦 Banja Luka 0.7%🇩🇪 Bensheim 0.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 22.6% 495 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Görlitz 23.1%🇩🇪 Heidelberg 23.1%🇩🇪 Ulm 22.9%🇪🇸 San Fernando 22.7%Remscheid🇩🇪 Landshut 22.5%🇩🇪 Schwerin 22.4%🇩🇪 Augsburg 22.3%🇦🇹 Wiener Neustadt 22.2%

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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