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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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇷🇺 Russia · metro 4.9M · 7,861 venues mapped

Saint Petersburg

Where Saint Petersburg 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 8 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Pushkin 25 km Nearest written profile 🇫🇮 Helsinki 📖 300 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Saint Petersburg 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 & drink7,861 places mapped
09:00–23:00
0006121824
18%
open past midnight
96%
open on Sundays
89h
open per week
10%
open 24/7
Shops & errands5,637 places mapped
08:00–23:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
102h
open per week
29%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
2
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
175
umbrella days a year
36.5 m
of rain since 1981
14
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1831.3 km
to West Eifel Volcanic Field
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
15:54
winter sunset (solar approx.)
18.8 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
12,804
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSaint Petersburg RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 17.5% 126 of 1,878 🇦🇲 Yerevan 17.6%🇪🇸 Albacete 17.5%🇺🇸 Morgantown 17.5%🇺🇸 Palmdale 17.5%Saint Petersburg🇺🇸 Hazel Park 17.4%🇨🇦 Saskatoon 17.4%🇺🇸 Birmingham 17.3%🇮🇹 Busto Arsizio 17.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 89 h 68 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Moscow 89 h🇰🇪 Ngong 89 h🇷🇺 Novosibirsk 89 h🇮🇳 Ponnani 89 hSaint Petersburg🇺🇸 Tacoma 89 h🇬🇷 Volos 89 h🇨🇦 Airdrie 88.5 h🇺🇸 Dallas 88.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.1% 391 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Newport 8.2%🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte 8.1%🇬🇧 Bridgend 8.1%🇯🇵 Ise 8.1%Saint Petersburg🇩🇪 Aalen 8%🇬🇭 Accra 8%🇺🇿 Asaka 8%🇹🇲 Ashgabat 8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0.4% 380 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Kaliningrad 0.4%🇺🇸 Memphis 0.4%🇸🇰 Prešov 0.4%🇺🇸 Reading 0.4%Saint Petersburg🇺🇸 Spring Valley 0.4%🇵🇱 Szczecin 0.4%🇦🇱 Tirana 0.4%🇮🇩 Ubud 0.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10.5% 126 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Kidderminster 10.5%🇷🇺 Krasnoyarsk 10.5%🇬🇭 Kumasi 10.5%🇨🇴 Manizales 10.5%Saint Petersburg🇧🇷 São Luís 10.5%🇺🇸 Lafayette 10.4%🇲🇦 Tangier 10.4%🇱🇾 Tripoli 10.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 99.1% 8 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Izhevsk 99.1%🇺🇦 Lutsk 99.1%🇷🇺 Maykop 99.1%🇷🇺 Podolsk 99.1%Saint Petersburg🇦🇿 Baku 99%🇹🇼 Hsinchu 99%🇷🇺 Odintsovo 99%🇷🇺 Samara 99%

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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