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

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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.

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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 741k · 711 venues mapped

Makhachkala

Where Makhachkala 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 22 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Vladikavkaz 231 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇪 Tbilisi 📖 262 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink711 places mapped
09:00–23:00
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12%
open past midnight
100%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
5%
open 24/7
Shops & errands676 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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2%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
30%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
14
muggy days a year
9
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
88
umbrella days a year
17 m
of rain since 1981
1,130
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
245.3 km
to Kazbek
11
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:19
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.4 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
10,850
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureMakhachkala RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 11.8% 182 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Evansville 11.8%🇧🇷 Florianópolis 11.8%🇸🇪 Gävle 11.8%🇺🇸 Lake Charles 11.8%Makhachkala🇧🇷 Manaus 11.8%🇨🇴 Medellín 11.8%🇺🇸 Myrtle Beach 11.8%🇷🇺 Orenburg 11.8%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 91 h 58 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Lawrence 91 h🇺🇸 Lexington 91 h🇺🇸 Little Elm 91 h🇷🇺 Lobnya 91 hMakhachkala🇮🇩 Malang 91 h🇷🇺 Maykop 91 h🇺🇸 Missoula 91 h🇺🇸 Modesto 91 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 1.2% 460 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Belfort 1.3%🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 1.3%🇵🇱 Świnoujście 1.3%🇷🇺 Kaluga 1.2%Makhachkala🇧🇷 Nova Lima 1.1%🇪🇸 Salamanca 1.1%🇳🇱 Enschede 0.9%🇯🇵 Komatsu 0.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 2.4% 360 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Lawrenceville 2.4%🇷🇺 Lobnya 2.4%🇺🇸 Longview 2.4%🇸🇪 Lund 2.4%Makhachkala🇮🇷 Mashhad 2.4%🇺🇸 Murfreesboro 2.4%🇩🇰 Odense 2.4%🇷🇺 Penza 2.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.7% 184 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Hartford 4.7%🇹🇼 Hsinchu 4.7%🇷🇴 Iași 4.7%🇨🇿 Jihlava 4.7%Makhachkala🇺🇸 St. Louis 4.7%🇱🇹 Vilnius 4.7%🇺🇸 Buffalo 4.6%🇺🇸 Charlotte 4.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 97.7% 22 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Denver 97.7%🇺🇸 Glen Burnie 97.7%🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 97.7%🇺🇸 Lynn 97.7%Makhachkala🇹🇷 Ankara 97.6%🇷🇺 Bataysk 97.6%🇮🇳 Coimbatore 97.6%🇬🇧 Liverpool 97.6%

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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