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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🇧🇷 Brazil · metro 921k · 962 venues mapped

Aracaju

Where Aracaju places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is never close at all, where it ranks 145 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇷 Maceió 201 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇷 São Paulo 📖 1,732 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink962 places mapped
11:00–23:00
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
63h
open per week
14%
take a midday break
9%
open 24/7
Shops & errands692 places mapped
07:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
345
muggy days a year
248
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
168
umbrella days a year
51.7 m
of rain since 1981
350
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2255.1 km
to Romanche Fracture Zone
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:14
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.8 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
14,447
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureAracaju RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.6% 214 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Sapiranga 8.7%🇺🇦 Zhytomyr 8.7%🇺🇸 Albuquerque 8.6%🇮🇹 Anzio 8.6%Aracaju🇺🇸 Buffalo 8.6%🇬🇧 Dundee 8.6%🇵🇱 Gdansk 8.6%🇩🇪 Göppingen 8.6%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 63 h 167 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Aberdeen 63 h🇯🇵 Akita 63 h🇪🇸 Alcalá de Henares 63 h🇮🇹 Alessandria 63 hAracaju🇯🇵 Asahikawa 63 h🇬🇧 Ashford 63 h🇬🇧 Bridgend 63 h🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 63 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 2.9% 443 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Florianópolis 3%🇩🇪 Mönchengladbach 3%🇩🇰 Odense 3%🇷🇺 Vladivostok 3%Aracaju🇪🇸 Benidorm 2.9%🇳🇱 Breda 2.9%🇩🇪 Hildesheim 2.9%🇯🇵 Kishiwada 2.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 14.3% 251 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Hiroshima 14.5%🇩🇪 Kassel 14.5%🇯🇵 Numazu 14.5%🇩🇪 Aachen 14.4%Aracaju🇷🇺 Arkhangelsk 14.3%🇩🇪 Delmenhorst 14.3%🇪🇸 Huelva 14.3%🇦🇹 Linz 14.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 8.6% 145 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Newcastle 8.7%🇨🇦 Saint John 8.7%🇷🇺 Tomsk 8.7%🇬🇧 Wishaw 8.7%Aracaju🇰🇷 Jeonju 8.6%🇺🇸 Saint Joseph 8.6%🇬🇧 Hinckley 8.5%🇷🇺 Moscow 8.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 81.7% 165 of 1,704 🇮🇳 Kollam 81.8%🇨🇦 Nanaimo 81.8%🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 81.8%🇨🇱 Valparaíso 81.8%Aracaju🇫🇷 Nice 81.7%🇷🇴 Timișoara 81.7%🇧🇷 Fortaleza 81.6%🇨🇷 Cartago 81.5%

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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