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
Tools

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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Compare two cities Head-to-head on absurd terms only. No GDP, no cappuccino index. The year, month by month Where to be in each month, who has the most days off, and when the airports peak. Start from a goal Eat well at 2 a.m. · Work all day from a café — ranked by what the city keeps open.
How this is made

Every figure on this site states where it came from and what it cannot tell you.

Read the method →
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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Southern Europe21
RomeMilanBarcelonaMadridAthensLisbon
Western Europe20
LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇷🇺 Russia · metro 1.1M · 2,093 venues mapped

Kazan

Where Kazan 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 5 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Yoshkar-Ola 121 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇮 Helsinki 📖 1,497 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Aug — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands2,622 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
9%
open 24/7
Food & drink2,093 places mapped
09:00–23:00
0006121824
6%
open past midnight
94%
open on Sundays
90h
open per week
5%
take a midday break
11%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
4
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
144
umbrella days a year
29.3 m
of rain since 1981
76
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1462.9 km
to Elbrus
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:12
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.6 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
11,612
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKazan RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5.6% 244 of 1,878 🇨🇺 Cienfuegos 5.6%🇪🇸 Elda 5.6%🇵🇱 Gorzów Wielkopolski 5.6%🇩🇪 Göttingen 5.6%Kazan🇺🇸 Little Rock 5.6%🇳🇿 Napier 5.6%🇪🇸 Nerja 5.6%🇮🇱 Netanya 5.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 90 h 64 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Yakima 90.1 h🇬🇷 Athens 90 h🇺🇸 Baltimore 90 h🇺🇸 Buffalo 90 hKazan🇷🇺 Kirov 90 h🇺🇸 New Hope 90 h🇱🇾 Tripoli 90 h🇺🇸 San Marcos 89.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 12% 352 of 1,878 🇫🇮 Joensuu 12.1%🇵🇸 Nablus 12.1%🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 12.1%🇲🇩 Chișinău 12%Kazan🇵🇱 Opole 12%🇨🇭 Thun 12%🇯🇵 Tokushima 12%🇩🇪 Rostock 11.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 5.4% 330 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Bridgeport 5.5%🇬🇧 London 5.5%🇺🇸 Santa Fe 5.5%🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 5.4%Kazan🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo 5.4%🇭🇰 Sha Tin 5.4%🇺🇸 Spartanburg 5.4%🇨🇳 Zhujiajiao 5.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10.9% 122 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead 11%🇯🇵 Nagoya 11%🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 11%🇵🇭 Agoo 10.9%Kazan🇮🇳 Kottayam 10.9%🇴🇲 Muscat 10.9%🇨🇺 Santa Clara 10.9%🇺🇿 Yangiyul 10.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 99.4% 5 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Surgut 99.5%🇺🇸 Tampa 99.5%🇷🇺 Cheboksary 99.4%🇦🇪 Dubai 99.4%Kazan🇷🇺 Krasnoyarsk 99.4%🇺🇸 Poway 99.4%🇷🇺 Pushkin 99.4%🇷🇺 Yaroslavl 99.4%

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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