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.

All 24 rankings →
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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

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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.

Read the method →
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.
By country

151 countries, each with its own holidays, extremes and the spread between its cities.

Every country →
Western Europe8
Austria1Belgium1Denmark1Finland3France1Germany3Ireland1Luxembourg1
CEE & Balkans8
Albania1Bulgaria1Croatia2Czechia1Estonia1Hungary1Latvia1Lithuania1
North America & Caribbean8
Barbados1Canada4Cayman Islands1Costa Rica1Mexico3Panama1Puerto Rico1United States6
Southern Europe7
Cyprus3Greece2Italy3Malta1Portugal3Slovenia1Spain7
South & Southeast Asia6
India2Indonesia1Malaysia2Singapore1Thailand2Vietnam3
MENA & Türkiye6
Bahrain1Israel1Oman1Qatar1Türkiye2United Arab Emirates3
The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

Every city, A–Z →
Southern Europe21
RomeMilanBarcelonaMadridAthensLisbon
Western Europe20
LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇨🇱 9 cities

Chile

1 city has a written profile, and 8 more are ranked on the hours they keep.

In the atlas

full profiles · 1

Santiago

📖

South America

Public holidays

Next public holiday Assumption Day 15 August 2026

16 statutory holidays in 2026. Dates and rules for 241 jurisdictions are maintained at timesys.pro.

  • 01 Jan New Year's Day
  • 03 Apr Good Friday
  • 04 Apr Holy Saturday
  • 01 May Labor Day
  • 21 May Navy Day
  • 21 Jun National Day of Indigenous Peoples
  • 29 Jun Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Day
  • 16 Jul Our Lady of Mount Carmel
  • 15 Aug Assumption Day
  • 18 Sept Independence Day
  • 19 Sept Army Day
  • 12 Oct Meeting of Two Worlds' Day
  • 31 Oct Reformation Day
  • 01 Nov All Saints' Day
  • 08 Dec Immaculate Conception
  • 25 Dec Christmas Day

The country, measured

The same six measures for every city here — the comparison a country page can make and a city page cannot.

CityAirport Population Muggy days Umbrella days Nonstop Quakes/decade
Santiago SCL 6,633,766 0 34 241 43.3

Also measured

ranked on their hours · 8

← All countries · The A–Z of written profiles