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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🇷🇺 Russia · metro 280k · 254 venues mapped

Smolensk

Where Smolensk 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 14 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Kaluga 274 km Nearest written profile 🇱🇹 Vilnius 📖 434 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands609 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
18%
open 24/7
Food & drink254 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
95%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
2
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
174
umbrella days a year
38 m
of rain since 1981
71
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1475.9 km
to Elbrus
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:27
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.3 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
12,488
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSmolensk RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 3.3% 267 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Locarno 3.3%🇨🇭 Montreux 3.3%🇺🇸 Mount Vernon 3.3%🇺🇸 New Braunfels 3.3%Smolensk🇸🇰 Žilina 3.3%🇩🇿 Algiers 3.2%🇲🇽 Guadalajara 3.2%🇩🇪 Leipzig 3.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Serpukhov 84 h🇷🇴 Sibiu 84 h🇰🇭 Siem Reap 84 h🇮🇩 Singkawang 84 hSmolensk🇧🇬 Stara Zagora 84 h🇺🇦 Sumy 84 h🇮🇩 Surabaya 84 h🇮🇩 Surakarta 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 4.3% 429 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Denizli 4.3%🇨🇭 Kreuzlingen 4.3%🇳🇬 Lagos 4.3%🇧🇷 Maceió 4.3%Smolensk🇪🇪 Tallinn 4.3%🇫🇷 Auxerre 4.2%🇧🇩 Chattogram 4.2%🇧🇷 Jaraguá do Sul 4.2%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇮🇩 Seririt 0%🇩🇿 Sidi Moussa 0%🇱🇧 Sidon 0%🇮🇩 Singkawang 0%Smolensk🇺🇸 Smyrna 0%🇨🇴 Sogamoso 0%🇿🇦 Somerset West 0%🇸🇻 Sonsonate 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.3% 188 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Mumbai 4.3%🇮🇳 New Delhi 4.3%🇵🇱 Przemyśl 4.3%🇨🇦 Sarnia 4.3%Smolensk🇺🇸 Winston-Salem 4.3%🇧🇷 Campo Grande 4.2%🇨🇦 Charlottetown 4.2%🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca 4.2%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.5% 14 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Tucson 98.6%🇷🇺 Tver 98.6%🇺🇸 Fairland 98.5%🇯🇵 Muroran 98.5%Smolensk🇷🇺 Taganrog 98.5%🇹🇼 Toufen 98.5%🇷🇺 Tyumen 98.5%🇷🇺 Voronezh 98.5%

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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