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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How this is made

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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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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
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East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇷🇺 Russia · metro 364k · 319 venues mapped

Belgorod

Where Belgorod 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 15 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇦 Kharkiv 74 km Nearest written profile 🇱🇹 Vilnius 📖 885 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
Shops & errands626 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
8%
open 24/7
Food & drink319 places mapped
09:00–23:00
0006121824
14%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
12%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
126
umbrella days a year
26.5 m
of rain since 1981
851
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
920.9 km
to Elbrus
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:31
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.5 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
12,008
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBelgorod RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 13.9% 161 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Normal 14%🇲🇽 Puerto Vallarta 14%🇵🇹 Póvoa de Varzim 14%🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 14%Belgorod🇺🇸 Eau Claire 13.9%🇮🇹 Forlì 13.9%🇯🇵 Kumagaya 13.9%🇮🇹 Pisa 13.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Azov 91 h🇷🇺 Bataysk 91 h🇺🇸 Baton Rouge 91 h🇬🇪 Batumi 91 hBelgorod🇷🇸 Belgrade 91 h🇺🇸 Bethlehem 91 h🇳🇵 Bharatpur 91 h🇺🇸 Billings 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 6.9% 403 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Roeselare 7%🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 7%🇫🇷 Vannes 7%🇷🇺 Voronezh 7%Belgorod🇧🇷 Goiânia 6.9%🇸🇪 Helsingborg 6.9%🇩🇪 Stuttgart 6.9%🇯🇵 Yokote 6.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇲🇾 Batu Pahat 0%🇬🇪 Batumi 0%🇺🇸 Bayonet Point 0%🇱🇧 Beirut 0%Belgorod🇷🇸 Belgrade 0%🇧🇿 Belize City 0%🇺🇸 Bethlehem 0%🇳🇵 Bharatpur 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 12.5% 106 of 1,878 🇬🇪 Kutaisi 12.7%🇨🇦 Niagara Falls 12.7%🇲🇽 Tijuana 12.7%🇮🇳 Attingal 12.5%Belgorod🇨🇳 Fangshan 12.5%🇲🇾 George Town 12.5%🇯🇵 Iizuka 12.5%🇯🇵 Kochi 12.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.4% 15 of 1,704 🇹🇷 Adana 98.4%🇯🇴 Amman 98.4%🇮🇶 Baghdad 98.4%🇬🇧 Basingstoke 98.4%Belgorod🇺🇸 Columbia 98.4%🇺🇦 Donetsk 98.4%🇯🇵 Kofu 98.4%🇺🇸 McAllen 98.4%

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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