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
🇫🇷 France · metro 713k · 3,227 venues mapped

Toulouse

Where Toulouse 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 36 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Montauban 47 km Nearest written profile 🇪🇸 Barcelona 📖 253 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, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink3,227 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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11%
open past midnight
56%
open on Sundays
45h
open per week
42%
take a midday break
Shops & errands1,502 places mapped
08:00–20:00
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1%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
17%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Services899 places mapped
09:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
3%
open on Sundays
38h
open per week
53%
take a midday break
Culture765 places mapped
10:00–18:30
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3%
open past midnight
30%
open on Sundays
35h
open per week
23%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
137
umbrella days a year
34.5 m
of rain since 1981
1,995
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
182.4 km
to Olot Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:21
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,260
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureToulouse RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.1% 189 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Savannah 11.1%🇨🇦 Sherwood Park 11.1%🇨🇴 Sogamoso 11.1%🇬🇧 Stafford 11.1%Toulouse🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 11.1%🇺🇸 Charlottesville 11%🇷🇺 Cheboksary 11%🇳🇱 Dordrecht 11%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 45 h 246 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 45 h🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 45 h🇫🇷 Saint-Étienne 45 h🇧🇪 Temse 45 hToulouse🇫🇷 Agen 44.8 h🇫🇷 Nancy 44.8 h🇧🇷 Maceió 44.6 h🇧🇷 João Pessoa 44 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 4.9% 423 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Brasilia 4.9%🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 4.9%🇩🇪 Pforzheim 4.9%🇲🇾 Seremban 4.9%Toulouse🇵🇱 Gniezno 4.8%🇪🇨 Latacunga 4.8%🇺🇦 Lutsk 4.8%🇩🇪 Osnabrück 4.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 42.3% 36 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Imola 42.6%🇮🇹 Rovereto 42.6%🇫🇷 Douai 42.3%🇮🇹 Piacenza 42.3%Toulouse🇮🇹 Milan 42%🇫🇷 Rouen 42%🇮🇹 Matera 41.9%🇫🇷 Amiens 41.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0.2% 229 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Paris 0.2%🇩🇪 Ravensburg 0.2%🇫🇷 Rouen 0.2%🇸🇪 Stockholm 0.2%Toulouse🇨🇭 Zurich 0.2%🇨🇭 Bern 0.1%🇧🇪 Brussels 0.1%🇫🇷 Montpellier 0.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 71.7% 238 of 1,704 🇳🇱 Tilburg 71.9%🇮🇹 Vigevano 71.9%🇪🇸 Madrid 71.8%🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 71.8%Toulouse🇫🇷 Nimes 71.6%🇮🇹 Bologna 71.4%🇮🇹 Brescia 71.4%🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 71.4%

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.

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