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
🇨🇺 Cuba · metro 442k · 515 venues mapped

Santiago de Cuba

Where Santiago de Cuba places among 1,878 cities measured on the one thing that needs no editing — the hours the city keeps. Its strongest showing is never close at all, where it ranks 87 of 1,878.

Nearest city 🇨🇺 Holguín 107 km Nearest written profile 🇺🇸 Miami 📖 781 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
Food & drink515 places mapped
11:00–23:00
0006121824
5%
open past midnight
88%
open on Sundays
81h
open per week
15%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
276
muggy days a year
102
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
116
umbrella days a year
23.3 m
of rain since 1981
11,888
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
1351.3 km
to Saba
7.2
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:29
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.3 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
18,250
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSantiago de Cuba RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 5% 250 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Kassel 5%🇹🇷 Nevşehir 5%🇺🇸 Portland 5%🇪🇨 Puyo 5%Santiago de Cuba🇦🇺 Sydney 5%🇵🇱 Wrocław 5%🇩🇪 Würzburg 5%🇩🇪 Aschaffenburg 4.9%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 80.8 h 95 of 1,878 🇵🇱 Przemyśl 81 h🇵🇭 Santo Tomas 81 h🇮🇱 Yavne 81 h🇵🇭 Puerto Princesa 80.8 hSantiago de Cuba🇺🇸 Auburn 80.5 h🇵🇹 Barreiro 80.5 h🇬🇧 Basildon 80.5 h🇰🇷 Busan 80.5 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10% 372 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Pune 10%🇲🇾 Putrajaya 10%🇦🇷 Resistencia 10%🇯🇵 Saga 10%Santiago de Cuba🇰🇷 Seogwipo 10%🇹🇳 Sousse 10%🇧🇷 São José do Rio Preto 10%🇯🇵 Tanabe 10%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 0% 384 of 1,878 🇺🇸 San Marcos 0%🇺🇸 Sandusky 0%🇸🇻 Santa Ana 0%🇺🇸 Santa Clarita 0%Santiago de Cuba🇩🇴 Santo Domingo 0%🇵🇭 Santo Tomas 0%🇧🇦 Sarajevo 0%🇨🇦 Sarnia 0%
Never close at all% open 24/7 15% 87 of 1,878 🇦🇺 Ballarat 15.2%🇺🇸 Fair Oaks 15.2%🇨🇳 Changsha 15%🇧🇷 Maringá 15%Santiago de Cuba🇲🇲 Yangon 15%🇨🇳 Zhaoqing 15%🇧🇷 Santos 14.9%🇨🇾 Kyrenia 14.8%

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.

← All 1,878 ranked cities