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 344k · 238 venues mapped

Boa Vista

Where Boa Vista 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 162 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇷 Manaus 662 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇴 Medellín 📖 1,695 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Boa Vista 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 & drink238 places mapped
11:00–23:00
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
72%
open on Sundays
40h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
7%
open 24/7
Shops & errands181 places mapped
07:00–21:15
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
75%
open on Sundays
90h
open per week
11%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
279
muggy days a year
96
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
176
umbrella days a year
71.1 m
of rain since 1981
12,758
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1043.3 km
to St. Catherine
0.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:00
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.3 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
16,755
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBoa Vista RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.3% 197 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Pleasanton 10.4%🇺🇸 San Diego 10.4%🇮🇩 Surakarta 10.4%🇮🇹 Udine 10.4%Boa Vista🇬🇧 Burnley 10.3%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 10.3%🇫🇷 Dijon 10.3%🇺🇸 Fall River 10.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 40 h 260 of 1,878 🇧🇪 Frameries 40.9 h🇫🇷 Arles 40.5 h🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 40.5 h🇧🇷 Araraquara 40 hBoa Vista🇫🇷 Lorient 40 h🇧🇪 Roeselare 40 h🇧🇷 Londrina 38.5 h🇯🇵 Beppu 38 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.3% 369 of 1,878 🇷🇴 Târgoviște 10.5%🇩🇪 Villingen-Schwenningen 10.5%🇯🇵 Fujieda 10.4%🇦🇷 Mendoza 10.4%Boa Vista🇫🇷 Bourges 10.3%🇪🇨 Cuenca 10.3%🇬🇧 Hastings 10.3%🇸🇪 Norrköping 10.3%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 6.9% 315 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Jiangshan 7%🇩🇪 Schwerin 7%🇬🇧 Southport 7%🇦🇹 Vienna 7%Boa Vista🇬🇧 Bracknell 6.9%🇦🇺 Hobart 6.9%🇭🇰 Hong Kong 6.9%🇲🇿 Maputo 6.9%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.9% 162 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Mangalagiri 7%🇰🇪 Ngong 7%🇮🇹 San Giuseppe Vesuviano 7%🇯🇵 Sapporo 7%Boa Vista🇬🇧 Coventry 6.9%🇵🇱 Częstochowa 6.9%🇹🇷 Eskisehir 6.9%🇮🇹 Fano 6.9%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 75% 215 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Béziers 75.3%🇪🇨 Cuenca 75.3%🇧🇷 Blumenau 75.2%🇪🇹 Addis Ababa 75%Boa Vista🇮🇹 Genoa 75%🇮🇹 L'Aquila 75%🇨🇱 Rancagua 75%🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 75%

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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