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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🇫🇷 France · metro 252k · 1,297 venues mapped

Rennes

Where Rennes 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 65 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 64 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 308 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 & drink1,297 places mapped
11:30–22:30
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18%
open past midnight
49%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
38%
take a midday break
Shops & errands543 places mapped
08:00–19:45
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0%
open past midnight
47%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
15%
take a midday break
Culture348 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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1%
open past midnight
20%
open on Sundays
20h
open per week
39%
take a midday break
Services329 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
60%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
136
umbrella days a year
32.3 m
of rain since 1981
258
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
437.8 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:16
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.1 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,565
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureRennes RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 18.3% 118 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Béziers 18.5%🇪🇸 Córdoba 18.5%🇺🇸 Martinez 18.5%🇲🇰 Skopje 18.5%Rennes🇵🇾 Asuncion 18.2%🇮🇹 Como 18.2%🇵🇸 Nablus 18.2%🇪🇨 Otavalo 18.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 47.5 h 236 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Rouen 47.8 h🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 47.5 h🇮🇹 Arezzo 47.5 h🇫🇷 Pau 47.5 hRennes🇫🇷 Toulon 47.5 h🇧🇷 Uberlândia 47.5 h🇮🇹 Viareggio 47.5 h🇫🇷 Bordeaux 47.2 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.5% 397 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Fukuoka 7.5%🇲🇽 Guadalajara 7.5%🇩🇪 Iserlohn 7.5%🇬🇧 Luton 7.5%Rennes🇯🇵 Wakayama 7.5%🇩🇪 Ingolstadt 7.4%🇨🇾 Kyrenia 7.4%🇫🇷 Le Mée-sur-Seine 7.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 37.9% 65 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Perugia 38.5%🇮🇹 Brescia 38.4%🇩🇪 Kehl 38.3%🇫🇷 Chartres 38.2%Rennes🇮🇹 Modena 37.7%🇮🇹 Lecco 37.5%🇪🇸 Logroño 37.5%🇳🇨 Nouméa 37.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.2% 219 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Lynchburg 1.2%🇳🇱 Maastricht 1.2%🇫🇷 Marseille 1.2%🇪🇸 Mataró 1.2%Rennes🇺🇸 Rochester 1.2%🇺🇸 Santa Fe 1.2%🇫🇷 Tours 1.2%🇺🇸 Watsonville 1.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 47% 385 of 1,704 🇪🇸 Marbella 47.6%🇮🇹 Imperia 47.5%🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 47.4%🇪🇸 Mataró 47.2%Rennes🇫🇷 Quimper 46.6%🇮🇹 Ancona 46.2%🇩🇪 Cuxhaven 46.1%🇪🇸 Sant Boi de Llobregat 46.1%

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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