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
🇧🇪 Belgium · metro 77k · 446 venues mapped

Temse

Where Temse 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 229 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇪 Mechelen 22 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 32 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, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink446 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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5%
open past midnight
86%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
17%
take a midday break
Shops & errands218 places mapped
08:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
51%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
Services80 places mapped
09:00–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
44h
open per week
38%
take a midday break
Culture79 places mapped
13:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
47%
open on Sundays
24h
open per week
13%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
149
umbrella days a year
35.4 m
of rain since 1981
114
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
214.2 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:38
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.6 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
14,175
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTemse RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.4% 246 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Landshut 5.4%🇬🇧 Loughborough 5.4%🇬🇧 Preston 5.4%🇩🇪 Schweinfurt 5.4%Temse🇧🇷 Arujá 5.3%🇬🇧 Bournemouth 5.3%🇨🇳 Chengdu 5.3%🇨🇳 Chongqing 5.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 45 h 246 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Poitiers 45 h🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 45 h🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 45 h🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 45 hTemse🇫🇷 Toulouse 45 h🇫🇷 Agen 44.8 h🇫🇷 Nancy 44.8 h🇧🇷 Maceió 44.6 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.4% 418 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Flensburg 5.4%🇧🇷 Recife 5.4%🇫🇷 Strasbourg 5.4%🇸🇪 Södertälje 5.4%Temse🇩🇪 Ulm 5.4%🇷🇺 Yekaterinburg 5.4%🇮🇹 Cervia 5.3%🇹🇷 Fethiye 5.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 17.2% 229 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Pamplona 17.5%🇩🇪 Dormagen 17.4%🇩🇪 Dusseldorf 17.3%🇮🇹 Palermo 17.2%Temse🇮🇹 Venice 17.2%🇧🇷 Campinas 17%🇩🇪 Iserlohn 17%🇪🇸 Toledo 17%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Talavera de la Reina 0%🇪🇸 Tarifa 0%🇧🇴 Tarija 0%🇵🇹 Tavira 0%Temse🇲🇽 Tepic 0%🇪🇸 Terrassa 0%🇺🇸 The Woodlands 0%🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 50.6% 369 of 1,704 🇸🇰 Trnava 51.1%🇳🇱 Zwolle 51%🇮🇹 Mestre 50.7%🇵🇱 Krakow 50.6%Temse🇪🇸 Granollers 50%🇲🇰 Skopje 49.6%🇫🇷 Angers 49.5%🇪🇸 Tarragona 49.3%

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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