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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 Marta

Where Santa Marta 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 127 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇴 Barranquilla 71 km Nearest written profile 🇨🇴 Medellín 📖 576 km

Typical weather

1981–present
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coldcool warmhot
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Come for everything else Santa Marta 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 & drink354 places mapped
09:00–22:00
0006121824
13%
open past midnight
78%
open on Sundays
74h
open per week
4%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
338
muggy days a year
246
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
158
umbrella days a year
35.9 m
of rain since 1981
10,637
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
683.3 km
to Romeral
3
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:39
winter sunset (solar approx.)
12.8 h
longest day of the year
18
public holidays, 2024
17,492
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSanta Marta RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 13.3% 167 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Louisville 13.3%🇫🇷 Montbéliard 13.3%🇯🇵 Narita 13.3%🇺🇸 Ocala 13.3%Santa Marta🇪🇪 Tallinn 13.3%🇳🇱 Tilburg 13.3%🇯🇵 Yamagata 13.3%🇫🇷 Agen 13.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 73.5 h 127 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Regina 73.5 h🇬🇧 Reigate 73.5 h🇬🇧 Rugby 73.5 h🇯🇵 Saga 73.5 hSanta Marta🇬🇧 Southend-on-Sea 73.5 h🇭🇺 Szeged 73.5 h🇪🇪 Tallinn 73.5 h🇨🇦 Vaudreuil-Dorion 73.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 17.8% 294 of 1,878 🇸🇷 Paramaribo 17.9%🇨🇦 Winnipeg 17.9%🇨🇴 Bucaramanga 17.8%🇸🇰 Nitra 17.8%Santa Marta🇨🇴 Santa Rosa de Cabal 17.8%🇬🇧 Stafford 17.8%🇬🇫 Cayenne 17.7%🇭🇺 Gyor 17.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 4.4% 340 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Barnsley 4.4%🇬🇧 Bridgend 4.4%🇺🇸 Fredericksburg 4.4%🇯🇵 Hino 4.4%Santa Marta🇺🇸 Thousand Oaks 4.4%🇨🇱 Valdivia 4.4%🇺🇸 Anchorage 4.3%🇹🇭 Chon Buri 4.3%
Never close at all% open 24/7 4.4% 187 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Little Elm 4.4%🇺🇸 Louisville 4.4%🇷🇸 Novi Sad 4.4%🇺🇸 San Diego 4.4%Santa Marta🇨🇦 White Rock 4.4%🇷🇺 Angarsk 4.3%🇪🇸 Benidorm 4.3%🇺🇸 Chattanooga 4.3%

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.

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