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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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🇺🇸 United States · metro 91k · 434 venues mapped

Santa Fe

Where Santa Fe 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 124 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇺🇸 Albuquerque 93 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Austin 📖 973 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot ▢ outlined = best time to visit
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Best time to visit May, 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 & drink434 places mapped
09:00–21:00
0006121824
1%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
66h
open per week
6%
take a midday break
Shops & errands85 places mapped
08:00–20:35
0006121824
3%
open past midnight
87%
open on Sundays
91h
open per week
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
0
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
73
umbrella days a year
16.9 m
of rain since 1981
2,748
days over 30 °C, of 16,627
0
volcanoes within 100 km
211.7 km
to Zuni-Bandera
0.6
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
16:54
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.6 h
longest day of the year
11
public holidays, 2024
16,160
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSanta Fe RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 1.2% 288 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Vitória 1.3%🇵🇱 Świdnica 1.3%🇬🇧 Bury St Edmunds 1.2%🇬🇧 Folkestone 1.2%Santa Fe🇸🇻 Cojutepeque 1.1%🇩🇪 Görlitz 1.1%🇺🇸 Hilo 1.1%🇦🇱 Shkoder 1.1%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 66.5 h 155 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Lago Norte 66.5 h🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 66.5 h🇯🇵 Nagasaki 66.5 h🇵🇱 Poznan 66.5 hSanta Fe🇪🇸 Santander 66.5 h🇮🇹 Tivoli 66.5 h🇪🇸 Vic 66.5 h🇮🇹 Vigevano 66.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 34.1% 148 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Myrtle Beach 34.2%🇺🇸 Tacoma 34.2%🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 34.1%🇺🇸 New Orleans 34.1%Santa Fe🇺🇸 Layton 34%🇺🇸 Harrisonburg 33.9%🇺🇸 Merced 33.9%🇮🇹 Pescara 33.8%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 5.5% 329 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Pleasanton 5.6%🇬🇧 Bournemouth 5.5%🇺🇸 Bridgeport 5.5%🇬🇧 London 5.5%Santa Fe🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City 5.4%🇷🇺 Kazan 5.4%🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo 5.4%🇭🇰 Sha Tin 5.4%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.2% 219 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Marseille 1.2%🇪🇸 Mataró 1.2%🇫🇷 Rennes 1.2%🇺🇸 Rochester 1.2%Santa Fe🇫🇷 Tours 1.2%🇺🇸 Watsonville 1.2%🇭🇷 Zagreb 1.2%🇧🇷 Araraquara 1.1%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 86.7% 124 of 1,704 🇨🇳 Dalian 86.7%🇲🇽 Guadalupe 86.7%🇯🇵 Komatsu 86.7%🇲🇽 Mexicali 86.7%Santa Fe🇬🇧 Barnsley 86.6%🇷🇸 Belgrade 86.5%🇬🇧 Stafford 86.5%🇫🇷 Sète 86.5%

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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