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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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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CEE & Balkans16
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🇫🇷 France · metro 103k · 636 venues mapped

Valenciennes

Where Valenciennes 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 19 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇪 Frameries 27 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇪 Brussels 📖 80 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit 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 & drink636 places mapped
11:30–22:30
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14%
open past midnight
78%
open on Sundays
58h
open per week
46%
take a midday break
Shops & errands383 places mapped
08:30–20:00
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0%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
73h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
4%
open 24/7
Services242 places mapped
09:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
0%
open on Sundays
43h
open per week
68%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
150
umbrella days a year
34.9 m
of rain since 1981
76
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
237.3 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:45
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.4 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
14,213
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureValenciennes RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.5% 155 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Montreal 14.5%🇹🇭 Pattaya 14.5%🇰🇿 Shymkent 14.5%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 14.5%Valenciennes🇷🇺 Barnaul 14.4%🇯🇵 Hachioji 14.4%🇯🇵 Hino 14.4%🇺🇸 Oklahoma City 14.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 57.8 h 190 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Remscheid 58 h🇲🇽 Tlalnepantla 58 h🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 57.8 h🇲🇽 Culiacán 57.8 hValenciennes🇩🇪 Würzburg 57.8 h🇮🇹 Albano Laziale 57.5 h🇪🇸 Cartagena 57.5 h🇩🇪 Munich 57.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6% 412 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Mechelen 6%🇩🇪 Ravensburg 6%🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 6%🇷🇺 Serpukhov 6%Valenciennes🇯🇵 Aomori 5.9%🇺🇦 Bila Tserkva 5.9%🇧🇪 Frameries 5.9%🇩🇪 Görlitz 5.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 45.8% 19 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Córdoba 46.9%🇪🇸 Jaén 46.7%🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 46.4%🇦🇷 San Juan 46.2%Valenciennes🇫🇷 Orléans 45.6%🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 45.5%🇫🇷 Maurepas 45.4%🇫🇷 Creil 45%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Unna 0%🇳🇱 Utrecht 0%🇨🇱 Valdivia 0%🇫🇷 Valence 0%Valenciennes🇪🇸 Valladolid 0%🇮🇹 Varese 0%🇳🇱 Veenendaal 0%🇳🇱 Venlo 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 76.5% 206 of 1,704 🇲🇽 Cholula 76.5%🇮🇹 Lido di Ostia 76.5%🇸🇰 Nitra 76.5%🇧🇷 Pelotas 76.5%Valenciennes🇮🇹 Rimini 76.3%🇳🇱 Breda 76.2%🇨🇴 Chía 76.2%🇮🇹 Gallarate 76.2%

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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