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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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Santa Clara

Where Santa Clara 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 🇨🇺 Cienfuegos 57 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Miami 📖 375 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, Nov, Dec — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Shops & errands559 places mapped
07:00–19:00
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0%
open past midnight
5%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
87%
take a midday break
6%
open 24/7
Food & drink446 places mapped
10:00–23:00
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16%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
84h
open per week
11%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
229
muggy days a year
63
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
146
umbrella days a year
36.9 m
of rain since 1981
10,284
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1181.8 km
to Yojoa, Lago
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:41
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.5 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
18,127
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSanta Clara RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 16.3% 137 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Vladimir 16.4%🇰🇿 Almaty 16.3%🇩🇪 Kehl 16.3%🇧🇷 Ponta Porã 16.3%Santa Clara🇺🇸 Willoughby 16.3%🇪🇸 Girona 16.2%🇫🇷 Le Havre 16.2%🇳🇴 Trondheim 16.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 84 h 82 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Salinas 84 h🇦🇷 Salta 84 h🇷🇺 Samara 84 h🇸🇻 San Salvador 84 hSanta Clara🇦🇷 Santa Fe 84 h🇺🇸 Santa Rosa 84 h🇨🇦 Saskatoon 84 h🇧🇩 Savar 84 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.6% 396 of 1,878 🇷🇺 Tambov 7.7%🇩🇪 Bamberg 7.6%🇷🇺 Krasnoyarsk 7.6%🇩🇪 Mannheim 7.6%Santa Clara🇫🇷 Vichy 7.6%🇫🇷 Aix-en-Provence 7.5%🇵🇭 Apalit 7.5%🇫🇷 Boulogne-sur-Mer 7.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.3% 351 of 1,878 🇹🇭 Khon Kaen 3.3%🇮🇳 Kollam 3.3%🇧🇷 Lago Norte 3.3%🇺🇸 Mount Vernon 3.3%Santa Clara🇹🇳 Sousse 3.3%🇺🇸 State College 3.3%🇷🇺 Surgut 3.3%🇨🇺 Varadero 3.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 10.9% 122 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Agoo 10.9%🇷🇺 Kazan 10.9%🇮🇳 Kottayam 10.9%🇴🇲 Muscat 10.9%Santa Clara🇺🇿 Yangiyul 10.9%🇳🇮 Tipitapa 10.8%🇺🇸 Atascocita 10.7%🇺🇸 El Paso 10.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 4.7% 554 of 1,704 🇧🇪 Tournai 9.5%🇩🇪 Straubing 9.4%🇩🇪 Chemnitz 9.2%🇩🇪 Zwickau 8.3%Santa Clara🇬🇷 Ioannina 3.8%

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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