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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🇩🇪 Germany · metro 38k · 230 venues mapped

Saarlouis

Where Saarlouis 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 140 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Metz 47 km Nearest written profile 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 📖 56 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink230 places mapped
11:30–22:00
0006121824
7%
open past midnight
69%
open on Sundays
48h
open per week
27%
take a midday break
Shops & errands113 places mapped
07:00–20:00
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2%
open past midnight
17%
open on Sundays
72h
open per week
Services63 places mapped
08:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
22%
open on Sundays
56h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
11%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
151
umbrella days a year
38.9 m
of rain since 1981
257
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
1
volcanoes within 100 km
95.5 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:37
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.3 h
longest day of the year
9
public holidays, 2024
13,968
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSaarlouis RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.3% 227 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Okayama 7.3%🇩🇪 Paderborn 7.3%🇩🇪 Regensburg 7.3%🇬🇧 Runcorn 7.3%Saarlouis🇯🇵 Sakata 7.3%🇺🇸 San Francisco 7.3%🇷🇴 Sibiu 7.3%🇺🇦 Sumy 7.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 48 h 233 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Leuven 48 h🇫🇷 Marignane 48 h🇦🇷 Posadas 48 h🇫🇷 Reims 48 hSaarlouis🇩🇪 Schweinfurt 48 h🇫🇷 Troyes 48 h🇩🇪 Weil am Rhein 48 h🇫🇷 Quimper 47.9 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.3% 399 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 7.3%🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 7.3%🇺🇦 Luhansk 7.3%🇷🇺 Pyatigorsk 7.3%Saarlouis🇸🇪 Umeå 7.3%🇹🇷 Gölbaşı 7.2%🇺🇦 Kharkiv 7.2%🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 7.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 27.3% 140 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 27.7%🇮🇹 Alessandria 27.6%🇩🇪 Celle 27.6%🇮🇹 Siena 27.4%Saarlouis🇮🇹 Trieste 27.3%🇨🇭 Zurich 27.3%🇪🇸 Valencia 27.2%🇦🇷 Salta 27%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Rostock 0%🇳🇿 Rotorua 0%🇫🇷 Royan 0%🇷🇴 Râmnicu Vâlcea 0%Saarlouis🇺🇸 Saint Cloud 0%🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 0%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 0%🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 16.9% 525 of 1,704 🇩🇪 Bamberg 18.3%🇪🇸 Gijón 18.3%🇩🇪 Dresden 18.2%🇪🇸 Córdoba 17.2%Saarlouis🇩🇪 Kempten (Allgäu) 16.8%🇦🇹 Wels 16.8%🇩🇪 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 16.3%🇦🇹 Sankt Pölten 16.1%

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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