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🇦🇷 Argentina · metro 14.2M · 12,058 venues mapped

Buenos Aires

Where Buenos Aires places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 64 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read Buenos Aires in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇦🇷 La Plata 52 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇾 Montevideo 📖 203 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands12,185 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
90h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
15%
open 24/7
Food & drink12,058 places mapped
09:00–24:00
0006121824
26%
open past midnight
79%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
31
muggy days a year
9
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
85
umbrella days a year
49.5 m
of rain since 1981
454
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1003 km
to Payun Matru
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:49
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.5 h
longest day of the year
20
public holidays, 2024
12,589
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureBuenos Aires RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 25.5% 64 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Gelendzhik 26%🇪🇸 Reus 25.7%🇹🇷 Alanya 25.6%🇨🇴 Armenia 25.6%Buenos Aires🇺🇸 Key West 25.5%🇨🇳 Changsha 25%🇧🇯 Cotonou 25%🇵🇰 Lahore 25%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Bolingbrook 84 h🇷🇴 Brasov 84 h🇧🇾 Brest 84 h🇷🇴 Bucharest 84 hBuenos Aires🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 84 h🇮🇹 Caserta 84 h🇵🇭 Cebu City 84 h🇷🇺 Cheboksary 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 19.5% 278 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Champaign 19.6%🇬🇧 Doncaster 19.6%🇲🇴 Macau 19.6%🇻🇳 Phan Thiết 19.6%Buenos Aires🇬🇧 Crawley 19.5%🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 19.5%🇩🇿 Algiers 19.4%🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas 19.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 9.4% 291 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Ashford 9.5%🇯🇵 Sapporo 9.5%🇭🇰 Tsuen Wan 9.5%🇮🇹 Viareggio 9.5%Buenos Aires🇧🇷 Fortaleza 9.4%🇦🇺 Wollongong 9.4%🇧🇴 Cochabamba 9.3%🇬🇧 High Wycombe 9.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 3% 201 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Rybnik 3.1%🇵🇱 Rzeszów 3.1%🇬🇧 Stoke-on-Trent 3.1%🇺🇦 Uzhhorod 3.1%Buenos Aires🇺🇸 Chico 3%🇺🇸 Coeur d'Alene 3%🇺🇸 Lewisville 3%🇷🇸 Niš 3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 82% 162 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 82.1%🇺🇸 Johnson City 82.1%🇧🇷 Santa Luzia 82.1%🇧🇷 Sapiranga 82.1%Buenos Aires🇧🇷 Niterói 81.9%🇮🇳 Kollam 81.8%🇨🇦 Nanaimo 81.8%🇧🇴 Santa Cruz de la Sierra 81.8%

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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