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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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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.

Read the method →
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.

Every city, A–Z →
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 224k · 1,078 venues mapped

Tours

Where Tours 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 92 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Blois 52 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇷 Paris 📖 203 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 & drink1,078 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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11%
open past midnight
57%
open on Sundays
49h
open per week
34%
take a midday break
Shops & errands537 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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2%
open past midnight
68%
open on Sundays
68h
open per week
24%
take a midday break
Services369 places mapped
09:00–18:15
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
67%
take a midday break
Culture368 places mapped
10:00–18:00
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0%
open past midnight
15%
open on Sundays
25h
open per week
30%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
127
umbrella days a year
31 m
of rain since 1981
803
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
249.5 km
to Chaine des Puys
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:09
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,380
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTours RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.4% 186 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Pickering 11.4%🇪🇨 Quito 11.4%🇲🇾 Rawang 11.4%🇺🇦 Rivne 11.4%Tours🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 11.3%🇩🇪 Bocholt 11.3%🇮🇹 Brescia 11.3%🇨🇦 Calgary 11.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 49 h 229 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Sogamoso 49 h🇧🇷 São Carlos 49 h🇯🇵 Takayama 49 h🇧🇷 Teresina 49 hTours🇫🇷 Vichy 49 h🇫🇷 Montpellier 48.8 h🇫🇷 Montbéliard 48.5 h🇫🇷 Mulhouse 48.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.4% 358 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Zapopan 11.5%🇪🇸 Alicante 11.4%🇧🇬 Burgas 11.4%🇮🇷 Rasht 11.4%Tours🇸🇰 Žilina 11.4%🇲🇽 Cholula 11.3%🇮🇳 Jaipur 11.3%🇪🇸 Roquetas de Mar 11.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 33.7% 92 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 34.5%🇫🇷 Le Havre 34.1%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 34.1%🇨🇭 Lausanne 33.7%Tours🇵🇹 Évora 33.6%🇮🇹 Pisa 33.5%🇮🇹 Asti 33.3%🇪🇸 Cartagena 33.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.2% 219 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Mataró 1.2%🇫🇷 Rennes 1.2%🇺🇸 Rochester 1.2%🇺🇸 Santa Fe 1.2%Tours🇺🇸 Watsonville 1.2%🇭🇷 Zagreb 1.2%🇧🇷 Araraquara 1.1%🇺🇸 Bend 1.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 68.4% 263 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Lyon 68.8%🇪🇸 Rivas-Vaciamadrid 68.7%🇫🇷 Agde 68.6%🇫🇷 Limoges 68.6%Tours🇳🇱 Groningen 68.3%🇨🇿 Pardubice 68.2%🇳🇱 Haarlem 68.1%🇺🇾 Maldonado 68%

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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