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.
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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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LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇧🇪 Belgium · metro 51k · 1,092 venues mapped

Roeselare

Where Roeselare 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 128 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇪 Kortrijk 17 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 87 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 & drink1,092 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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6%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
29%
take a midday break
Shops & errands549 places mapped
08:00–19:00
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1%
open past midnight
59%
open on Sundays
64h
open per week
Services269 places mapped
08:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
49%
take a midday break
Culture238 places mapped
10:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
31%
open on Sundays
22h
open per week
31%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
149
umbrella days a year
35 m
of rain since 1981
33
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
277.1 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:44
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
14,249
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureRoeselare RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 6.2% 238 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Kasaragod 6.2%🇯🇵 Kochi 6.2%🇮🇹 Lucca 6.2%🇧🇷 Recife 6.2%Roeselare🇵🇱 Rybnik 6.2%🇩🇪 Sindelfingen 6.2%🇺🇸 Spokane Valley 6.2%🇭🇳 Tegucigalpa 6.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 40 h 260 of 1,878 🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 40.5 h🇧🇷 Araraquara 40 h🇧🇷 Boa Vista 40 h🇫🇷 Lorient 40 hRoeselare🇧🇷 Londrina 38.5 h🇯🇵 Beppu 38 h🇳🇨 Nouméa 37.2 h🇧🇷 Jaraguá do Sul 36 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7% 402 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Jena 7%🇵🇱 Katowice 7%🇯🇵 Koriyama 7%🇯🇵 Kumamoto 7%Roeselare🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 7%🇫🇷 Vannes 7%🇷🇺 Voronezh 7%🇷🇺 Belgorod 6.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 28.7% 128 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Vicenza 29.2%🇮🇹 Ascoli Piceno 29.1%🇨🇭 Wettingen 29%🇮🇹 Bergamo 28.9%Roeselare🇪🇸 Reus 28.6%🇪🇸 Santa Pola 28.6%🇪🇸 Torrejón de Ardoz 28.4%🇨🇭 Montreux 28.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Reus 0%🇮🇹 Riccione 0%🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 0%🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 0%Roeselare🇳🇱 Roosendaal 0%🇪🇸 Roquetas de Mar 0%🇩🇪 Rostock 0%🇳🇿 Rotorua 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 59.4% 324 of 1,704 🇧🇪 Verviers 59.7%🇧🇪 La Louvière 59.6%🇳🇱 Arnhem 59.4%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 59.4%Roeselare🇫🇷 Valence 59.4%🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 59.1%🇭🇺 Gyor 58.9%🇫🇷 Auxerre 58.8%

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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