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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 237k · 237 venues mapped

Taganrog

Where Taganrog 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 🇷🇺 Azov 41 km Nearest written profile 🇬🇪 Tbilisi 📖 775 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
Shops & errands722 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
98%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
15%
open 24/7
Food & drink237 places mapped
10:00–24:00
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24%
open past midnight
92%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
6%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
4
muggy days a year
4
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
95
umbrella days a year
23.3 m
of rain since 1981
1,219
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
512.9 km
to Elbrus
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:37
winter sunset (solar approx.)
15.9 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
11,673
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTaganrog RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 24.5% 68 of 1,878 🇵🇰 Lahore 25%🇧🇭 Manama 25%🇺🇸 Terre Haute 24.7%🇹🇷 Fethiye 24.6%Taganrog🇪🇸 Vigo 24.4%🇺🇸 Green Bay 24.3%🇺🇸 Missoula 24.2%🇰🇼 Kuwait City 24.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 98 h 37 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Sarnia 98 h🇺🇸 Schenectady 98 h🇰🇿 Shymkent 98 h🇺🇸 Spring Valley 98 hTaganrog🇺🇿 Tashkent 98 h🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 98 h🇺🇸 Topeka 98 h🇺🇸 Troy 98 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.7% 415 of 1,878 🇹🇯 Hisor 5.7%🇩🇪 Oldenburg 5.7%🇮🇸 Reykjavik 5.7%🇫🇷 Saint-Nazaire 5.7%Taganrog🇷🇺 Bataysk 5.6%🇹🇷 Batman 5.6%🇫🇷 Béziers 5.6%🇧🇷 Chapecó 5.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.8% 346 of 1,878 🇬🇦 Libreville 3.8%🇸🇪 Norrköping 3.8%🇺🇸 Salt Lake City 3.8%🇺🇸 Springfield 3.8%Taganrog🇸🇪 Västerås 3.8%🇮🇪 Waterford 3.8%🇺🇸 Atlanta 3.7%🇨🇴 Cúcuta 3.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.7% 174 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Murcia 5.7%🇮🇷 Rasht 5.7%🇺🇦 Rivne 5.7%🇬🇧 Scarborough 5.7%Taganrog🇪🇸 Almuñécar 5.6%🇬🇧 Basingstoke 5.6%🇺🇸 Dallas 5.6%🇮🇩 Denpasar 5.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 98.5% 14 of 1,704 🇷🇺 Tver 98.6%🇺🇸 Fairland 98.5%🇯🇵 Muroran 98.5%🇷🇺 Smolensk 98.5%Taganrog🇹🇼 Toufen 98.5%🇷🇺 Tyumen 98.5%🇷🇺 Voronezh 98.5%🇹🇷 Adana 98.4%

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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