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 268k · 470 venues mapped

Kaluga

Where Kaluga 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 12 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Obninsk 68 km Nearest written profile 🇱🇹 Vilnius 📖 708 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Kaluga does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands833 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
9%
open 24/7
Food & drink470 places mapped
10:00–23:00
0006121824
15%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
88h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
10%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
2
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
159
umbrella days a year
33.2 m
of rain since 1981
52
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1320.8 km
to Elbrus
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:11
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.3 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
12,231
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKaluga RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 15.1% 149 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Shanghai 15.2%🇸🇪 Södertälje 15.2%🇺🇸 Akron 15.1%🇫🇷 Angoulême 15.1%Kaluga🇪🇸 Mairena del Aljarafe 15.1%🇺🇸 Nashville 15.1%🇺🇸 Panama City 15.1%🇨🇦 Toronto 15.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 88.5 h 69 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Tacoma 89 h🇬🇷 Volos 89 h🇨🇦 Airdrie 88.5 h🇺🇸 Dallas 88.5 hKaluga🇺🇸 Santa Clarita 88.2 h🇺🇸 Kansas City 88 h🇺🇸 Myrtle Beach 88 h🇩🇿 Oran 88 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 1.2% 460 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Kislovodsk 1.4%🇫🇷 Belfort 1.3%🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 1.3%🇵🇱 Świnoujście 1.3%Kaluga🇷🇺 Makhachkala 1.2%🇧🇷 Nova Lima 1.1%🇪🇸 Salamanca 1.1%🇳🇱 Enschede 0.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 6% 324 of 1,878 🇸🇪 Malmo 6.1%🇦🇺 Brisbane 6%🇮🇪 Cork 6%🇩🇰 Esbjerg 6%Kaluga🇺🇸 Lowell 6%🇬🇧 Maidenhead 6%🇬🇧 Warwick 6%🇬🇧 Blackpool 5.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10.2% 129 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Savona 10.3%🇺🇸 Bridgeport 10.2%🇺🇸 Columbia 10.2%🇪🇬 Hurghada 10.2%Kaluga🇲🇲 Mawlamyine 10.2%🇹🇭 Pattaya 10.2%🇹🇷 Antalya 10.1%🇺🇸 Birmingham 10.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.7% 12 of 1,704 🇲🇲 Twante 98.8%🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 98.8%🇬🇪 Batumi 98.7%🇨🇳 Guangzhou 98.7%Kaluga🇺🇸 Lexington 98.7%🇦🇱 Shkoder 98.7%🇰🇿 Shymkent 98.7%🇬🇪 Tbilisi 98.7%

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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