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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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🇨🇴 Colombia · metro 290k · 950 venues mapped

Chía

Where Chía 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 87 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇴 Bogota 28 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇴 Medellín 📖 228 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Chía 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 & errands1,006 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
88h
open per week
Food & drink950 places mapped
10:00–21:00
0006121824
22%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
244
umbrella days a year
88.4 m
of rain since 1981
0
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
139.2 km
to Bravo, Cerro
5.8
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:50
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.4 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
16,830
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureChía RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 22.2% 87 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Dénia 22.6%🇪🇸 Gijón 22.4%🇧🇾 Hrodna 22.4%🇮🇹 Latina 22.4%Chía🇧🇷 Uberlândia 22.2%🇪🇸 Torrejón de Ardoz 22.1%🇷🇺 Vladivostok 22.1%🇷🇺 Astrakhan 22%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 78 h 107 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Białystok 78 h🇵🇭 Cabiao 78 h🇵🇷 Caguas 78 h🇺🇸 Champaign 78 hChía🇨🇿 Frýdek-Místek 78 h🇨🇾 Limassol 78 h🇪🇸 Logroño 78 h🇬🇧 Maidstone 78 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 25.9% 219 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Nakhon Ratchasima 26%🇭🇺 Szeged 26%🇳🇦 Windhoek 26%🇲🇦 Bouskoura 25.9%Chía🇺🇸 Draper 25.9%🇺🇸 New York City 25.9%🇮🇹 Cremona 25.8%🇨🇳 Guangzhou 25.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Chicago Heights 0%🇲🇽 Cholula 0%🇨🇳 Chongqing 0%🇰🇷 Chuncheon 0%Chía🇦🇷 Cipolletti 0%🇲🇽 Ciudad Juárez 0%🇺🇸 Coeur d'Alene 0%🇮🇳 Coimbatore 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Charlottesville 0%🇫🇷 Chartres 0%🇲🇽 Cholula 0%🇨🇳 Chongqing 0%Chía🇲🇽 Ciudad Juárez 0%🇬🇧 Coleraine 0%🇫🇷 Colmar 0%🇬🇷 Corfu 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 76.2% 208 of 1,704 🇧🇷 Pelotas 76.5%🇫🇷 Valenciennes 76.5%🇮🇹 Rimini 76.3%🇳🇱 Breda 76.2%Chía🇮🇹 Gallarate 76.2%🇮🇹 Massa 76.2%🇮🇳 Puducherry 76.2%🇦🇷 San Carlos de Bariloche 76.2%

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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