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
Tools

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Compare two cities Head-to-head on absurd terms only. No GDP, no cappuccino index. The year, month by month Where to be in each month, who has the most days off, and when the airports peak. Start from a goal Eat well at 2 a.m. · Work all day from a café — ranked by what the city keeps open.
How this is made

Every figure on this site states where it came from and what it cannot tell you.

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Method & principles What we measure, what we refuse to guess, and why rhythm is never a claim about people. Sources Every corpus behind the atlas, with its licence. Books coming soon The long-form city profiles and the method book. Contact · request a city Tell us what the atlas is missing.
The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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Southern Europe21
RomeMilanBarcelonaMadridAthensLisbon
Western Europe20
LondonParisLuxembourgViennaAmsterdamDublin
North America & Caribbean18
New YorkMiamiAustinSan FranciscoLos AngelesSeattle
CEE & Balkans16
PragueBudapestWarsawBelgradeBucharestKraków
East Asia12
TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
South & Southeast Asia11
SingaporeBangkokKuala LumpurChiang MaiDa NangGeorge Town
🇨🇺 Cuba · metro 314k · 348 venues mapped

Holguín

Where Holguín 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 51 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇺 Santiago de Cuba 107 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Miami 📖 675 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink348 places mapped
09:00–23:00
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8%
open past midnight
83%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
21%
open 24/7
Shops & errands232 places mapped
07:00–19:00
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5%
open past midnight
62%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
18%
take a midday break
12%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
304
muggy days a year
130
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
172
umbrella days a year
41 m
of rain since 1981
10,554
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1403.2 km
to Yojoa, Lago
0.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:29
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.4 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
18,294
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureHolguín RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.3% 217 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Boston 8.3%🇮🇹 Catania 8.3%🇫🇷 Chambéry 8.3%🇳🇱 Gouda 8.3%Holguín🇷🇺 Ivanteyevka 8.3%🇧🇷 Lago Norte 8.3%🇨🇦 Maple Ridge 8.3%🇯🇵 Mito 8.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇨🇳 Harbin 84 h🇨🇺 Havana 84 h🇺🇸 Hazel Park 84 h🇹🇯 Hisor 84 hHolguín🇺🇸 Holland 84 h🇧🇾 Hrodna 84 h🇵🇪 Huaraz 84 h🇺🇸 Huntsville 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 5.6% 416 of 1,878 🇹🇷 Batman 5.6%🇫🇷 Béziers 5.6%🇧🇷 Chapecó 5.6%🇩🇪 Darmstadt 5.6%Holguín🇯🇵 Iida 5.6%🇧🇪 Kortrijk 5.6%🇩🇪 Neumünster 5.6%🇧🇷 Pelotas 5.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 1.4% 370 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Deventer 1.4%🇺🇸 El Paso 1.4%🇺🇸 Findlay 1.4%🇺🇸 Gainesville 1.4%Holguín🇺🇸 Idaho Falls 1.4%🇳🇱 Leiden 1.4%🇮🇩 Medan 1.4%🇺🇸 Miami 1.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 20.8% 51 of 1,878 🇰🇬 Bishkek 21.1%🇹🇷 Fethiye 21.1%🇵🇰 Karachi 21%🇮🇶 Kirkuk 20.9%Holguín🇬🇧 Mansfield 20.6%🇵🇭 Cagayan de Oro 20.4%🇯🇵 Oita 20.4%🇮🇩 Banjaran 20.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 62.5% 304 of 1,704 🇧🇷 Nova Lima 62.9%🇷🇴 Târgu Mureș 62.9%🇧🇷 Vitória 62.7%🇫🇷 Belfort 62.5%Holguín🇳🇨 Nouméa 62.5%🇮🇹 Udine 62.5%🇫🇷 Avignon 62.4%🇵🇱 Wrocław 62.4%

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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