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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🇷🇺 Russia · metro 618k · 493 venues mapped

Irkutsk

Where Irkutsk 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 7 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Angarsk 39 km Nearest written profile 🇰🇿 Astana 📖 2,246 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 — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink493 places mapped
10:00–22:32
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20%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands386 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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4%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
12%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
100
umbrella days a year
19.8 m
of rain since 1981
456
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
359.9 km
to Jombolok
4.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:52
winter sunset (solar approx.)
16.8 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
9,436
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureIrkutsk RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 19.6% 107 of 1,878 🇺🇸 State College 20%🇨🇳 Zhaoqing 20%🇺🇸 Greenville 19.8%🇴🇲 Muscat 19.8%Irkutsk🇷🇺 Khabarovsk 19.4%🇲🇨 Monaco 19.4%🇧🇫 Ouagadougou 19.4%🇮🇹 Pescara 19.4%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Iași 84 h🇺🇸 Idaho Falls 84 h🇮🇳 Indore 84 h🇮🇳 Irinjalakuda 84 hIrkutsk🇺🇦 Ivano-Frankivsk 84 h🇷🇺 Ivanovo 84 h🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 84 h🇨🇳 Jiangshan 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 4.6% 426 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Penza 4.7%🇨🇱 Santiago 4.7%🇳🇱 Bussum 4.6%🇦🇹 Dornbirn 4.6%Irkutsk🇧🇾 Minsk 4.6%🇵🇭 Nasugbu 4.6%🇫🇷 Albi 4.5%🇫🇷 Bayonne 4.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Iizuka 0%🇺🇸 Indianapolis 0%🇺🇸 Indio 0%🇮🇳 Indore 0%Irkutsk🇵🇰 Islamabad 0%🇺🇦 Ivano-Frankivsk 0%🇷🇺 Ivanovo 0%🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.6% 195 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Colorado Springs 3.6%🇬🇧 Folkestone 3.6%🇹🇭 Hat Yai 3.6%🇯🇵 Himeji 3.6%Irkutsk🇺🇦 Khmelnytskyi 3.6%🇺🇸 Los Angeles 3.6%🇯🇵 Osaki 3.6%🇨🇿 Ostrava 3.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 99.2% 7 of 1,704 🇯🇵 Mito 99.3%🇺🇸 Riverside 99.3%🇷🇺 Tambov 99.3%🇺🇸 Chicago Heights 99.2%Irkutsk🇺🇸 Moreno Valley 99.2%🇷🇺 Moscow 99.2%🇺🇸 Norristown 99.2%🇳🇵 Pokhara 99.2%

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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