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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🇷🇺 Russia · metro 52k · 394 venues mapped

Anapa

Where Anapa places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 13 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Novorossiysk 40 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇪 Tbilisi 📖 705 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, 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 & drink394 places mapped
09:00–23:00
0006121824
5%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
94h
open per week
9%
open 24/7
Shops & errands376 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
14%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
8
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
120
umbrella days a year
28.2 m
of rain since 1981
1,409
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
443.6 km
to Elbrus
2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:52
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.6 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
11,645
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAnapa RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.1% 249 of 1,878 🇭🇺 Kecskemét 5.2%🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne 5.2%🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 5.2%🇳🇱 Zwolle 5.2%Anapa🇮🇩 Banjaran 5.1%🇪🇸 Castelló de la Plana 5.1%🇳🇿 Christchurch 5.1%🇧🇷 Curitiba 5.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 94.5 h 48 of 1,878 🇺🇸 New Braunfels 95 h🇺🇸 North Richland Hills 95 h🇺🇸 Wilkes-Barre 95 h🇭🇷 Zagreb 95 hAnapa🇺🇿 Asaka 94.5 h🇺🇸 Bentonville 94.5 h🇨🇳 Chongqing 94.5 h🇧🇯 Cotonou 94.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 11.1% 361 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Pamplona 11.2%🇨🇿 Pilsen 11.2%🇷🇺 Pushkin 11.2%🇦🇹 Wels 11.2%Anapa🇧🇷 Blumenau 11.1%🇲🇽 Culiacán 11.1%🇪🇸 Granada 11.1%🇬🇧 High Wycombe 11.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1% 374 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Sosnowiec 1.1%🇷🇺 Tambov 1.1%🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 1.1%🇺🇸 Wichita 1.1%Anapa🇺🇸 Asbury Park 1%🇺🇸 Chicago 1%🇺🇸 Detroit 1%🇬🇧 Glasgow 1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 9.1% 140 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Myrtle Beach 9.2%🇷🇺 Vladivostok 9.2%🇬🇭 Accra 9.1%🇹🇷 Adana 9.1%Anapa🇬🇧 Great Yarmouth 9.1%🇮🇱 Haifa 9.1%🇨🇳 Jinan 9.1%🇺🇦 Poltava 9.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.6% 13 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Lexington 98.7%🇦🇱 Shkoder 98.7%🇰🇿 Shymkent 98.7%🇬🇪 Tbilisi 98.7%Anapa🇺🇸 Dale City 98.6%🇺🇸 Houston 98.6%🇺🇸 Tucson 98.6%🇷🇺 Tver 98.6%

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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