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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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇫🇷 France · metro 309k · 1,396 venues mapped

Rouen

Where Rouen 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 37 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Le Havre 72 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 112 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 — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,396 places mapped
11:30–22:30
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9%
open past midnight
54%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
42%
take a midday break
Shops & errands900 places mapped
08:22–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
68%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
19%
take a midday break
Culture526 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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2%
open past midnight
29%
open on Sundays
22h
open per week
26%
take a midday break
Services516 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
1%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
67%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
148
umbrella days a year
34.5 m
of rain since 1981
89
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
420.4 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:59
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.3 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,376
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureRouen RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.4% 206 of 1,878 🇦🇹 Graz 9.4%🇺🇸 Hemet 9.4%🇮🇳 Lucknow 9.4%🇬🇧 Norwich 9.4%Rouen🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 9.4%🇵🇱 Tarnów 9.4%🇺🇸 Albany 9.3%🇪🇸 Almeria 9.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 47.8 h 235 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 48 h🇫🇷 Quimper 47.9 h🇮🇹 Perugia 47.8 h🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 47.8 hRouen🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 47.5 h🇮🇹 Arezzo 47.5 h🇫🇷 Pau 47.5 h🇫🇷 Rennes 47.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.3% 389 of 1,878 🇪🇨 Manta 8.3%🇫🇷 Montpellier 8.3%🇷🇸 Niš 8.3%🇷🇺 Odintsovo 8.3%Rouen🇨🇺 Varadero 8.3%🇫🇷 Brest 8.2%🇧🇷 Campinas 8.2%🇬🇧 Cardiff 8.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 42% 37 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Douai 42.3%🇮🇹 Piacenza 42.3%🇫🇷 Toulouse 42.3%🇮🇹 Milan 42%Rouen🇮🇹 Matera 41.9%🇫🇷 Amiens 41.7%🇫🇷 Auxerre 41.7%🇧🇪 Kortrijk 41.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.2% 229 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Malmo 0.2%🇫🇷 Nantes 0.2%🇫🇷 Paris 0.2%🇩🇪 Ravensburg 0.2%Rouen🇸🇪 Stockholm 0.2%🇫🇷 Toulouse 0.2%🇨🇭 Zurich 0.2%🇨🇭 Bern 0.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 67.9% 268 of 1,704 🇨🇿 Pardubice 68.2%🇳🇱 Haarlem 68.1%🇺🇾 Maldonado 68%🇵🇱 Szczecin 68%Rouen🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 67.8%🇳🇱 Hilversum 67.7%🇭🇷 Pula 67.4%🇪🇸 Vilanova i la Geltrú 67.4%

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