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
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🇧🇿 Belize · metro 15k · 278 venues mapped

San Pedro

Where San Pedro places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is open before 8 a.m., where it ranks 86 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇿 Belize City 52 km Nearest written profile 🇲🇽 Mérida 📖 381 km

Typical weather

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

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink278 places mapped
08:00–21:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
77h
open per week
12%
take a midday break
Shops & errands189 places mapped
07:00–20:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
60%
open on Sundays
83h
open per week

Vital absurdities

measured
342
muggy days a year
251
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
177
umbrella days a year
63.7 m
of rain since 1981
5,197
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
328.3 km
to Yojoa, Lago
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:22
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.2 h
longest day of the year
14
public holidays, 2024
17,161
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSan Pedro RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 0% 296 of 1,878 🇳🇿 Rotorua 0%🇮🇹 Rovereto 0%🇫🇷 Royan 0%🇬🇧 Salisbury 0%San Pedro🇸🇻 Santa Ana 0%🇵🇭 Santo Tomas 0%🇰🇷 Seogwipo 0%🇲🇾 Seremban 0%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 77 h 111 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Riccione 77 h🇨🇴 Rionegro 77 h🇺🇸 Salt Lake City 77 h🇺🇸 San Diego 77 hSan Pedro🇯🇵 Sapporo 77 h🇺🇸 Saratoga Springs 77 h🇨🇦 Sherbrooke 77 h🇯🇵 Shibata 77 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 41.2% 86 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Toledo 41.4%🇹🇭 Chon Buri 41.3%🇺🇸 Grand Rapids 41.3%🇺🇸 Riverside 41.2%San Pedro🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 41.2%🇺🇸 Tuscaloosa 41%🇺🇸 Franklin 40.9%🇺🇸 Huntington Station 40.9%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 11.8% 272 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Taranto 11.9%🇬🇧 Doncaster 11.8%🇧🇷 Manaus 11.8%🇲🇺 Port Louis 11.8%San Pedro🇪🇸 Tarifa 11.8%🇯🇵 Kawagoe 11.7%🇬🇧 Northampton 11.7%🇩🇪 Dresden 11.6%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Salamanca 0%🇲🇽 San Andrés Cholula 0%🇺🇸 San Clemente 0%🇻🇪 San Cristobal 0%San Pedro🇺🇸 Sandusky 0%🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 0%🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 0%🇧🇷 Santa Maria 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 60% 320 of 1,704 🇭🇺 Szeged 60.2%🇮🇹 Bassano del Grappa 60%🇨🇿 Brno 60%🇮🇹 Matera 60%San Pedro🇮🇹 Pescara 59.9%🇫🇷 Brest 59.7%🇧🇪 Verviers 59.7%🇧🇪 La Louvière 59.6%

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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