RUҚАЗRUҚАЗSomeone searches for a place to get a haircut in the evening, and hits silence. We counted how many businesses in Kazakhstan publish no hours anywhere. Counted on September 3, 2026, from a base of 72,287 beauty and health businesses in 24 cities
20,626 businesses have no hours listed. That's 29%, almost one in three. To find out if a place is open right now, a person has to call
| city | businesses | no hours | share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Almaty | 16,601 | 3,245 | 20% |
| Shymkent | 6,734 | 1,477 | 22% |
| Astana | 11,092 | 2,565 | 23% |
| Turkestan | 1,351 | 360 | 27% |
| Petropavlovsk | 1,601 | 498 | 31% |
| Kokshetau | 2,192 | 703 | 32% |
| Kyzylorda | 1,917 | 650 | 34% |
| Ekibastuz | 825 | 279 | 34% |
| Taraz | 2,070 | 730 | 35% |
| Atyrau | 2,244 | 839 | 37% |
| Kostanay | 3,948 | 1,506 | 38% |
| Pavlodar | 2,925 | 1,125 | 38% |
| Aktau | 2,770 | 1,051 | 38% |
| Uralsk | 2,386 | 941 | 39% |
| Ust-Kamenogorsk | 2,428 | 998 | 41% |
| Aktobe | 2,931 | 1,247 | 43% |
| Semey | 2,217 | 1,000 | 45% |
In Semey, the odds of hitting a business with no schedule are twice as high as in Almaty. The split runs right along one line: the two biggest cities against everyone else. Almaty, Astana, and Shymkent stay between 20% and 23%. Every other city starts at 27%
| category | businesses | no hours | share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bathhouses and saunas | 3,505 | 1,620 | 46% |
| Nail studios | 2,811 | 1,062 | 38% |
| Hair salons | 7,023 | 2,126 | 30% |
| Brow and lash studios | 1,935 | 572 | 30% |
| Dance schools | 1,681 | 486 | 29% |
| Hair removal | 1,738 | 454 | 26% |
| Private dental clinics | 3,924 | 952 | 24% |
| Massage therapists | 6,139 | 1,215 | 20% |
| Cosmetologists | 2,301 | 362 | 16% |
| Barbershops | 1,631 | 263 | 16% |
The gap between a bathhouse and a barbershop is almost threefold. The reason is simple: a bathhouse often runs around the clock or on a floating schedule, and the owner doesn't see the point in writing that down. To a person searching, it looks the same either way: no hours
The flip side shows up too. Barbershops and cosmetologists stay silent the least in this table. Both run on appointments, and an appointment system doesn't work without stated hours
Publishing hours costs less than almost any other step: one line on a listing. Yet hours are exactly what a person uses to decide whether to call now or keep looking. A business with no hours falls out of the answer to "who's open today until nine"
Meanwhile, 65,520 businesses out of 72,287 list a phone number, 91%. So owners are ready to be reached. They just forget to say when they're there
Source: our own database of beauty and health businesses in Kazakhstan, 72,287 addresses, 24 cities, counted on September 3, 2026. A business counts as silent if its schedule field is empty: not a single day of the week has hours listed. Cities with fewer than 800 businesses were left out of the table. On small numbers, the share swings too much
Numbers in this article come from our own database of public directories in Kazakhstan, counted on September 3, 2026. We count them ourselves and never take them from other reports