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.

All 24 rankings →
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

Three ways to interrogate the atlas rather than read it.

Open the comparer →
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.

Read the method →
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.

Every city, A–Z →
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
🇦🇷 Argentina · metro 763k · 630 venues mapped

La Plata

Where La Plata 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 133 of 1,878.

Nearest city · in the atlas 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 📖 52 km

Typical weather

1981–present
JFMAMJJASOND
coldcool warmhot
JFMAMJJASOND
Come for everything else La Plata 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 & errands982 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
80%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
13%
open 24/7
Food & drink630 places mapped
12:00–24:00
0006121824
17%
open past midnight
89%
open on Sundays
71h
open per week
11%
take a midday break

Vital absurdities

measured
14
muggy days a year
1
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
88
umbrella days a year
47.9 m
of rain since 1981
2,213
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1032.5 km
to Payun Matru
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:47
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.5 h
longest day of the year
20
public holidays, 2024
12,551
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureLa Plata RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 16.7% 133 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Cambridge 17%🇱🇺 Luxembourg 17%🇺🇸 Hamilton 16.9%🇮🇹 Asti 16.7%La Plata🇺🇸 Little Elm 16.7%🇵🇪 Pisco 16.7%🇵🇪 Piura 16.7%🇮🇹 Riva del Garda 16.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 71 h 136 of 1,878 🇨🇴 Bogota 71 h🇵🇱 Częstochowa 71 h🇨🇿 Hradec Králové 71 h🇪🇨 Ibarra 71 hLa Plata🇺🇸 Lynchburg 71 h🇬🇧 Nottingham 71 h🇮🇹 Palermo 71 h🇵🇪 Pisco 71 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 13.9% 333 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Lucca 14%🇵🇹 Amora 13.9%🇧🇯 Cotonou 13.9%🇬🇧 Edinburgh 13.9%La Plata🇨🇦 Niagara Falls 13.9%🇵🇹 Setúbal 13.9%🇹🇷 Eskisehir 13.8%🇯🇵 Kawagoe 13.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 11.1% 279 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Halle (Saale) 11.2%🇬🇧 St Albans 11.2%🇬🇧 Taunton 11.2%🇲🇾 George Town 11.1%La Plata🇧🇷 Pelotas 11.1%🇵🇪 Pisco 11.1%🇺🇸 Chapel Hill 11%🇬🇧 Reading 11%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Kreuzlingen 0%🇨🇳 Kunming 0%🇮🇹 L'Aquila 0%🇲🇽 La Paz 0%La Plata🇫🇷 La Rochelle 0%🇨🇱 La Serena 0%🇮🇹 La Spezia 0%🇵🇹 Lagos 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 79.5% 184 of 1,704 🇫🇷 Perpignan 80%🇦🇷 Salta 80%🇹🇷 Istanbul 79.7%🇮🇹 Salerno 79.6%La Plata🇳🇱 Venlo 79.5%🇮🇹 Como 79.4%🇧🇷 Jundiaí 79.4%🇦🇷 Mendoza 79.4%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities