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.

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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 72k · 541 venues mapped

Valence

Where Valence 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 12 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇫🇷 Grenoble 69 km Nearest written profile 🇮🇹 Turin 📖 219 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 & drink541 places mapped
11:30–22:00
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9%
open past midnight
58%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
49%
take a midday break
Shops & errands323 places mapped
08:00–19:30
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0%
open past midnight
59%
open on Sundays
71h
open per week
21%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7
Culture228 places mapped
09:30–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
32%
open on Sundays
27h
open per week
21%
take a midday break
Services201 places mapped
08:45–18:30
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0%
open past midnight
5%
open on Sundays
36h
open per week
64%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
115
umbrella days a year
35.7 m
of rain since 1981
1,229
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
178.5 km
to Chaine des Puys
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:02
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.6 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,017
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureValence RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9% 210 of 1,878 🇰🇭 Phnom Penh 9%🇩🇪 Reutlingen 9%🇺🇸 Southgate 9%🇺🇸 Turlock 9%Valence🇺🇸 Auburn 8.9%🇹🇭 Bangkok 8.9%🇲🇩 Chișinău 8.9%🇮🇪 Kilkenny 8.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 42 h 256 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Natal 42 h🇦🇷 Resistencia 42 h🇧🇷 Santa Maria 42 h🇵🇪 Tacna 42 hValence🇮🇹 Aosta 41.5 h🇧🇪 Frameries 40.9 h🇫🇷 Arles 40.5 h🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 40.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.9% 393 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Offenburg 7.9%🇫🇷 Orléans 7.9%🇲🇺 Port Louis 7.9%🇷🇺 Tyumen 7.9%Valence🇪🇸 Valladolid 7.9%🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 7.8%🇩🇪 Augsburg 7.8%🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 7.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 48.9% 12 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Colmar 49.7%🇫🇷 Reims 49.3%🇫🇷 Cergy 49.2%🇫🇷 Chalon-sur-Saône 48.9%Valence🇫🇷 Nancy 48.7%🇧🇳 Bandar Seri Begawan 48.6%🇪🇸 Córdoba 46.9%🇪🇸 Jaén 46.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Umeå 0%🇩🇪 Unna 0%🇳🇱 Utrecht 0%🇨🇱 Valdivia 0%Valence🇫🇷 Valenciennes 0%🇪🇸 Valladolid 0%🇮🇹 Varese 0%🇳🇱 Veenendaal 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 59.4% 324 of 1,704 🇧🇪 La Louvière 59.6%🇳🇱 Arnhem 59.4%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 59.4%🇧🇪 Roeselare 59.4%Valence🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 59.1%🇭🇺 Gyor 58.9%🇫🇷 Auxerre 58.8%🇫🇷 Bourges 58.8%

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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