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The Anti-Awards

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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 Maria

Where Santa Maria places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is kitchens open past midnight, where it ranks 215 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre 251 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇷 Florianópolis 📖 563 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Santa Maria does a lot well. The weather is not on the list.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink421 places mapped
11:30–22:52
0006121824
8%
open past midnight
66%
open on Sundays
42h
open per week
8%
take a midday break
Shops & errands338 places mapped
08:00–21:00
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0%
open past midnight
43%
open on Sundays
78h
open per week
10%
take a midday break
10%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
49
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
138
umbrella days a year
78.5 m
of rain since 1981
2,977
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1402.7 km
to Blanco, Cerro
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:43
winter sunset (solar approx.)
14.1 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
13,075
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSanta Maria RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 8.5% 215 of 1,878 🇮🇹 Massa 8.5%🇺🇸 New Hope 8.5%🇺🇸 Philadelphia 8.5%🇵🇾 Presidente Franco 8.5%Santa Maria🇲🇽 Tijuana 8.5%🇦🇱 Tirana 8.5%🇻🇳 Vũng Tàu 8.5%🇺🇸 Wheaton 8.5%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 42 h 256 of 1,878 🇧🇪 La Louvière 42 h🇪🇸 Mataró 42 h🇧🇷 Natal 42 h🇦🇷 Resistencia 42 hSanta Maria🇵🇪 Tacna 42 h🇫🇷 Valence 42 h🇮🇹 Aosta 41.5 h🇧🇪 Frameries 40.9 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 1.7% 455 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Gouda 1.8%🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 1.7%🇺🇦 Chernivtsi 1.7%🇪🇨 Ibarra 1.7%Santa Maria🇳🇱 Tilburg 1.7%🇷🇺 Astrakhan 1.6%🇺🇦 Ternopil 1.6%🇬🇪 Batumi 1.5%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 8.5% 299 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Amarillo 8.6%🇯🇵 Hirosaki 8.6%🇰🇷 Jeonju 8.6%🇬🇧 Canterbury 8.5%Santa Maria🇵🇪 Trujillo 8.5%🇩🇪 Kiel 8.4%🇧🇷 Chapecó 8.3%🇬🇧 Folkestone 8.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 0% 231 of 1,878 🇧🇿 San Pedro 0%🇺🇸 Sandusky 0%🇪🇸 Sant Andreu de la Barca 0%🇪🇸 Sant Vicenç dels Horts 0%Santa Maria🇪🇸 Santa Pola 0%🇪🇸 Santander 0%🇪🇸 Santiago de Compostela 0%🇲🇽 Santiago de Querétaro 0%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 42.6% 399 of 1,704 🇮🇹 Asti 43.8%🇨🇭 Montreux 43.5%🇪🇸 Terrassa 43.5%🇫🇷 Metz 42.6%Santa Maria🇿🇼 Harare 42.5%🇪🇸 Fuengirola 42.2%🇪🇸 Girona 42.2%🇵🇱 Tarnów 42.2%

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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