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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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🇦🇷 Argentina · metro 633k · 341 venues mapped

Salta

Where Salta places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is hours open per week, where it ranks 82 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇦🇷 San Miguel de Tucumán 224 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇱 Santiago 📖 1,087 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Oct — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not a wet month.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands683 places mapped
08:00–22:00
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0%
open past midnight
80%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
3%
open 24/7
Food & drink341 places mapped
08:30–24:00
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22%
open past midnight
76%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
27%
take a midday break
5%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
91
umbrella days a year
36.4 m
of rain since 1981
392
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
244.7 km
to Cordon de Puntas Negras
5.4
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
18:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.7 h
longest day of the year
20
public holidays, 2024
13,702
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSalta RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 21.6% 92 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Ibiza 21.6%🇮🇹 Naples 21.6%🇺🇸 Oshkosh 21.6%🇮🇹 Rome 21.6%Salta🇪🇸 Torrevieja 21.6%🇷🇺 Bataysk 21.5%🇦🇷 Mar del Plata 21.5%🇺🇿 Tashkent 21.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇲🇲 Sagaing 84 h🇨🇦 Saint John 84 h🇺🇸 Salem 84 h🇺🇸 Salinas 84 hSalta🇷🇺 Samara 84 h🇸🇻 San Salvador 84 h🇨🇺 Santa Clara 84 h🇦🇷 Santa Fe 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 21.6% 259 of 1,878 🇯🇵 Mito 21.7%🇦🇺 Newcastle 21.7%🇲🇹 Valletta 21.7%🇬🇧 Birmingham 21.6%Salta🇦🇺 Adelaide 21.4%🇬🇧 Basildon 21.4%🇮🇹 Livorno 21.4%🇮🇹 Milan 21.4%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 27% 142 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Saarlouis 27.3%🇮🇹 Trieste 27.3%🇨🇭 Zurich 27.3%🇪🇸 Valencia 27.2%Salta🇯🇵 Kumamoto 26.8%🇩🇪 Bensheim 26.7%🇮🇹 Turin 26.7%🇮🇹 Follonica 26.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 5.4% 177 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Aylesbury 5.4%🇷🇺 Chelyabinsk 5.4%🇺🇸 Hilo 5.4%🇷🇺 Maykop 5.4%Salta🇭🇰 Sha Tin 5.4%🇺🇸 Tucson 5.4%🇬🇪 Batumi 5.3%🇵🇱 Elbląg 5.3%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 80% 181 of 1,704 🇨🇴 Manizales 80%🇮🇳 Muvattupuzha 80%🇧🇫 Ouagadougou 80%🇫🇷 Perpignan 80%Salta🇹🇷 Istanbul 79.7%🇮🇹 Salerno 79.6%🇦🇷 La Plata 79.5%🇳🇱 Venlo 79.5%

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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