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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The index

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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇧🇷 Brazil · metro 2.2M · 740 venues mapped

Belém

Where Belém 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 112 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇷 Macapá 330 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇷 São Paulo 📖 2,465 km

Typical weather

1981–present
JFMAMJJASOND
coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Belém does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink740 places mapped
10:00–22:00
0006121824
7%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
12%
open 24/7
Shops & errands629 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
86h
open per week
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
365
muggy days a year
128
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
280
umbrella days a year
117.1 m
of rain since 1981
6,348
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2098.3 km
to St. Catherine
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:16
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.2 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
15,951
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBelém RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 7.1% 229 of 1,878 🇨🇦 White Rock 7.2%🇺🇸 Anchorage 7.1%🇺🇸 Appleton 7.1%🇺🇸 Bellingham 7.1%Belém🇨🇦 Fredericton 7.1%🇫🇮 Joensuu 7.1%🇬🇧 Keighley 7.1%🇷🇺 Kirov 7.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 60 h 181 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Perth 60.2 h🇩🇪 Aachen 60 h🇩🇪 Baden-Baden 60 h🇮🇹 Bari 60 hBelém🇦🇹 Bregenz 60 h🇩🇪 Dortmund 60 h🇬🇧 Dundee 60 h🇯🇵 Echizen 60 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.1% 401 of 1,878 🇺🇦 Kharkiv 7.2%🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 7.2%🇪🇸 Torremolinos 7.2%🇳🇱 Venlo 7.2%Belém🇺🇿 Bukhara 7.1%🇮🇪 Galway 7.1%🇮🇪 Kilkenny 7.1%🇮🇩 Medan 7.1%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 7.1% 313 of 1,878 🇱🇦 Vientiane 7.3%🇬🇧 Aldershot 7.2%🇺🇸 Charlottesville 7.2%🇦🇺 Adelaide 7.1%Belém🇯🇵 Hanno 7.1%🇬🇧 Newcastle upon Tyne 7.1%🇸🇷 Paramaribo 7.1%🇦🇺 Point Cook 7.1%
Never close at all% open 24/7 11.9% 112 of 1,878 🇦🇱 Tirana 12.2%🇧🇷 Goiânia 12.1%🇯🇴 Amman 12%🇺🇸 Corpus Christi 12%Belém🇺🇸 Bossier City 11.9%🇺🇸 Jacksonville 11.9%🇯🇵 Aomori 11.8%🇮🇹 Barletta 11.8%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 75.6% 211 of 1,704 🇮🇳 Puducherry 76.2%🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 76.2%🇮🇹 Vercelli 76.1%🇦🇷 Mar del Plata 76%Belém🇪🇨 Guayaquil 75.6%🇮🇹 Pavia 75.4%🇳🇱 Purmerend 75.4%🇭🇷 Split 75.4%

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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