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
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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇷🇺 Russia · metro 552k · 657 venues mapped

Tomsk

Where Tomsk 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 7 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇷🇺 Kemerovo 147 km Nearest written profile 🇰🇿 Astana 📖 1,064 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands845 places mapped
08:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
99%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
15%
open 24/7
Food & drink657 places mapped
10:00–22:38
0006121824
15%
open past midnight
93%
open on Sundays
86h
open per week
9%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
1
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
152
umbrella days a year
26.5 m
of rain since 1981
105
days over 30 °C, of 16,626
0
volcanoes within 100 km
995 km
to Jombolok
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:43
winter sunset (solar approx.)
17.8 h
longest day of the year
19
public holidays, 2024
10,258
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureTomsk RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 14.8% 152 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Moreno Valley 14.8%🇺🇸 Sandusky 14.8%🇺🇸 St. Louis 14.8%🇧🇬 Stara Zagora 14.8%Tomsk🇺🇸 Bloomington 14.7%🇳🇱 Hoorn 14.7%🇺🇸 Norfolk 14.7%🇵🇹 Faro 14.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 86 h 76 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Norman 86 h🇺🇸 Olathe 86 h🇺🇸 Puyallup 86 h🇺🇸 Sacramento 86 hTomsk🇺🇸 Broken Arrow 85.8 h🇩🇿 Meftah 85.8 h🇺🇸 Mount Pleasant 85.8 h🇭🇷 Pula 85.8 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 8.4% 388 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Gdynia 8.4%🇵🇱 Krakow 8.4%🇪🇸 Mataró 8.4%🇷🇺 Podolsk 8.4%Tomsk🇧🇪 Brussels 8.3%🇲🇽 Cuernavaca 8.3%🇵🇱 Gorzów Wielkopolski 8.3%🇸🇪 Lund 8.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇳🇮 Tipitapa 0%🇩🇿 Tizi Ouzou 0%🇲🇽 Tlalnepantla 0%🇲🇽 Toluca 0%Tomsk🇺🇸 Topeka 0%🇵🇱 Toruń 0%🇬🇹 Totonicapán 0%🇹🇷 Trabzon 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 8.7% 144 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Milton Keynes 8.8%🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 8.8%🇦🇺 Newcastle 8.7%🇨🇦 Saint John 8.7%Tomsk🇬🇧 Wishaw 8.7%🇧🇷 Aracaju 8.6%🇰🇷 Jeonju 8.6%🇺🇸 Saint Joseph 8.6%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 99.2% 7 of 1,704 🇺🇸 Moreno Valley 99.2%🇷🇺 Moscow 99.2%🇺🇸 Norristown 99.2%🇳🇵 Pokhara 99.2%Tomsk🇺🇸 Cape Coral 99.1%🇹🇷 Gölbaşı 99.1%🇷🇺 Izhevsk 99.1%🇺🇦 Lutsk 99.1%

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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