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The weather6
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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
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The Monoculture MenuThe Calendar of ExcusesA Gigabyte of Cats
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Chelyabinsk

Where Chelyabinsk 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 10 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Yekaterinburg 196 km Nearest written profile 🇰🇿 Astana 📖 800 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, Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands1,684 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
12%
open 24/7
Food & drink791 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
118
umbrella days a year
22.9 m
of rain since 1981
416
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1846.3 km
to Kazbek
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:27
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.4 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
10,982
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureChelyabinsk RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.3% 197 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Surakarta 10.4%🇮🇹 Udine 10.4%🇧🇷 Boa Vista 10.3%🇬🇧 Burnley 10.3%Chelyabinsk🇫🇷 Dijon 10.3%🇺🇸 Fall River 10.3%🇮🇹 Florence 10.3%🇺🇸 Greensboro 10.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 84 h🇮🇹 Caserta 84 h🇵🇭 Cebu City 84 h🇷🇺 Cheboksary 84 hChelyabinsk🇮🇳 Chennai 84 h🇰🇷 Cheongju-si 84 h🇺🇦 Cherkasy 84 h🇺🇦 Chernihiv 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.1% 421 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Reutlingen 5.2%🇯🇵 Tsuruoka 5.2%🇷🇺 Vladimir 5.2%🇳🇱 Zwolle 5.2%Chelyabinsk🇧🇷 Curitiba 5.1%🇳🇴 Drammen 5.1%🇩🇪 Heidelberg 5.1%🇩🇪 Kiel 5.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.8% 366 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Toronto 1.9%🇺🇸 Tulsa 1.9%🇺🇸 Ames 1.8%🇹🇭 Bangkok 1.8%Chelyabinsk🇺🇸 Cheyenne 1.8%🇳🇱 Gouda 1.8%🇺🇸 Grand Junction 1.8%🇹🇷 Izmir 1.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.4% 177 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Montgomery 5.5%🇺🇸 Toledo 5.5%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 5.5%🇬🇧 Aylesbury 5.4%Chelyabinsk🇺🇸 Hilo 5.4%🇷🇺 Maykop 5.4%🇦🇷 Salta 5.4%🇭🇰 Sha Tin 5.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.9% 10 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Samara 99%🇯🇵 Sapporo 99%🇷🇺 Vyborg 99%🇯🇵 Akita 98.9%Chelyabinsk🇺🇸 Dunwoody 98.9%🇿🇦 Durban 98.9%🇮🇩 Malang 98.9%🇺🇸 Phoenix 98.9%

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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