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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🇮🇶 Iraq · metro 1.2M · 367 venues mapped

Kirkuk

Where Kirkuk 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 1 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇮🇶 Erbil 87 km Nearest written profile 🇦🇲 Yerevan 📖 524 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Apr, May, Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands628 places mapped
07:00–22:00
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2%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
105h
open per week
27%
open 24/7
Food & drink367 places mapped
09:00–23:00
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5%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
21%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
83
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
48
umbrella days a year
11.9 m
of rain since 1981
7,833
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
402.9 km
to Nemrut Dagi
5.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:54
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.6 h
longest day of the year
16
public holidays, 2024
10,565
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureKirkuk RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 4.7% 253 of 1,878 🇲🇲 Yangon 4.8%🇮🇪 Cork 4.7%🇬🇧 Gillingham 4.7%🇨🇦 Kelowna 4.7%Kirkuk🇨🇦 Oshawa 4.7%🇬🇧 Southport 4.7%🇺🇸 Trenton 4.7%🇸🇪 Karlstad 4.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇮🇷 Karaj 91 h🇺🇸 Kenosha 91 h🇺🇸 Key West 91 h🇷🇼 Kigali 91 hKirkuk🇹🇷 Konya 91 h🇷🇺 Krasnoyarsk 91 h🇺🇸 Lacey 91 h🇺🇸 Las Cruces 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 18.6% 286 of 1,878 🇲🇽 Mérida 18.8%🇲🇦 Tangier 18.8%🇪🇸 Tarragona 18.8%🇮🇳 Udaipur 18.8%Kirkuk🇮🇹 Reggio nell'Emilia 18.6%🇮🇶 Al Hillah 18.5%🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 18.5%🇮🇳 Coimbatore 18.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.3% 361 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Gillingham 2.3%🇨🇳 Hangzhou 2.3%🇪🇬 Hurghada 2.3%🇻🇳 Huế 2.3%Kirkuk🇺🇸 Knoxville 2.3%🇺🇸 New Hope 2.3%🇰🇪 Ngong 2.3%🇳🇱 Purmerend 2.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 20.9% 50 of 1,878 🇵🇸 Nablus 21.2%🇰🇬 Bishkek 21.1%🇹🇷 Fethiye 21.1%🇵🇰 Karachi 21%Kirkuk🇨🇺 Holguín 20.8%🇬🇧 Mansfield 20.6%🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 20.4%🇯🇵 Oita 20.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 100% 1 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Kennewick 100%🇺🇸 Kenosha 100%🇸🇩 Khartoum 100%🇺🇸 Killeen 100%Kirkuk🇯🇵 Kishiwada 100%🇯🇵 Kitakyushu 100%🇹🇭 Ko Samui 100%🇹🇷 Konya 100%

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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