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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Southern Europe21
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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇱🇻 Latvia · metro 517k · 1,671 venues mapped

Riga

Where Riga 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 85 of 1,704.

This city has a full profile Read Riga in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇱🇹 Šiauliai 123 km Nearest written profile 🇱🇹 Vilnius 📖 261 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink1,671 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
12%
open past midnight
79%
open on Sundays
76h
open per week
4%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,200 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
91%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
7%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
2
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
159
umbrella days a year
35.8 m
of rain since 1981
1
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1360.4 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:44
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.9 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
13,037
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureRiga RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.1% 179 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Joliet 12.1%🇯🇵 Komatsu 12.1%🇺🇸 Lincoln 12.1%🇺🇸 Orlando 12.1%Riga🇫🇷 Saint-Brieuc 12.1%🇺🇸 Tallahassee 12.1%🇧🇷 Teresina 12.1%🇨🇺 Trinidad 12.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 76 h 115 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Kidderminster 76 h🇺🇸 Madison 76 h🇻🇪 Maracaibo 76 h🇸🇰 Poprad 76 hRiga🇮🇹 Salerno 76 h🇺🇸 Spokane Valley 76 h🇵🇱 Tarnów 76 h🇳🇦 Windhoek 76 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.3% 419 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Fethiye 5.3%🇧🇷 Novo Hamburgo 5.3%🇨🇺 Nuevitas 5.3%🇵🇪 Pucallpa 5.3%Riga🇨🇱 Temuco 5.3%🇩🇪 Wuppertal 5.3%🇷🇺 Zhukovsky 5.3%🇩🇪 Bocholt 5.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.3% 381 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Manassas Park 0.3%🇺🇦 Odesa 0.3%🇵🇱 Pabianice 0.3%🇵🇱 Poznan 0.3%Riga🇷🇺 Sochi 0.3%🇺🇸 Spokane 0.3%🇪🇪 Tallinn 0.3%🇺🇿 Tashkent 0.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3.7% 194 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Modesto 3.7%🇷🇺 Omsk 3.7%🇨🇦 Ottawa 3.7%🇻🇳 Phú Quốc 3.7%Riga🇬🇧 Salisbury 3.7%🇨🇳 Shanghai 3.7%🇨🇦 Sherwood Park 3.7%🇬🇧 Shrewsbury 3.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 91.2% 85 of 1,704 🇰🇷 Gwangju 91.4%🇺🇸 Flagstaff 91.3%🇺🇸 Pensacola 91.3%🇬🇧 Bognor Regis 91.2%Riga🇨🇦 Oshawa 91.1%🇬🇧 Portsmouth 91.1%🇦🇺 Sydney 91.1%🇬🇧 Wigan 91.1%

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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