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
🇧🇴 Bolivia · metro 2.0M · 2,083 venues mapped

Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Where Santa Cruz de la Sierra places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is shops open on sunday, where it ranks 164 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇧🇴 Cochabamba 319 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇷 São Paulo 📖 1,835 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink2,083 places mapped
11:00–22:30
0006121824
9%
open past midnight
78%
open on Sundays
60h
open per week
6%
open 24/7
Shops & errands1,281 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
98h
open per week
15%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
131
muggy days a year
14
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
122
umbrella days a year
56.3 m
of rain since 1981
7,917
days over 30 °C, of 16,629
0
volcanoes within 100 km
583.6 km
to Tata Sabaya
6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:46
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.2 h
longest day of the year
12
public holidays, 2024
14,483
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSanta Cruz de la Sierra RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 9.4% 206 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Hemet 9.4%🇮🇳 Lucknow 9.4%🇬🇧 Norwich 9.4%🇫🇷 Rouen 9.4%Santa Cruz de la Sierra🇵🇱 Tarnów 9.4%🇺🇸 Albany 9.3%🇪🇸 Almeria 9.3%🇦🇹 Dornbirn 9.3%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 60 h 181 of 1,878 🇪🇸 Reus 60 h🇮🇹 Rimini 60 h🇩🇪 Rostock 60 h🇧🇷 Salvador 60 hSanta Cruz de la Sierra🇨🇭 Schaffhausen 60 h🇬🇧 Shrewsbury 60 h🇦🇺 Sydney 60 h🇪🇸 Zaragoza 60 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 15.2% 320 of 1,878 🇨🇭 Bern 15.2%🇬🇧 East Kilbride 15.2%🇮🇳 Hyderabad 15.2%🇨🇦 London 15.2%Santa Cruz de la Sierra🇪🇸 A Coruña 15.1%🇸🇦 Riyadh 15.1%🇨🇭 Zurich 15.1%🇬🇧 Banbury 15%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 3.6% 348 of 1,878 🇵🇭 Cebu City 3.6%🇰🇷 Daejeon 3.6%🇷🇼 Kigali 3.6%🇺🇸 Merced 3.6%Santa Cruz de la Sierra🇨🇦 Vancouver 3.6%🇺🇸 Bakersfield 3.5%🇨🇳 Beijing 3.5%🇲🇦 Rabat 3.5%
Never close at all% open 24/7 6.5% 166 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Little Rock 6.5%🇬🇧 Maidstone 6.5%🇮🇷 Mashhad 6.5%🇻🇳 Phan Thiết 6.5%Santa Cruz de la Sierra🇮🇳 Thiruvananthapuram 6.5%🇺🇸 Amarillo 6.4%🇨🇴 Barranquilla 6.4%🇹🇯 Dushanbe 6.4%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 81.8% 164 of 1,704 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires 82%🇧🇷 Niterói 81.9%🇮🇳 Kollam 81.8%🇨🇦 Nanaimo 81.8%Santa Cruz de la Sierra🇨🇱 Valparaíso 81.8%🇧🇷 Aracaju 81.7%🇫🇷 Nice 81.7%🇷🇴 Timișoara 81.7%

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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