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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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🇧🇷 Brazil · metro 19.5M · 8,361 venues mapped

São Paulo

Where São Paulo 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 135 of 1,878.

This city has a full profile Read São Paulo in the atlas → Weather, rhythm, seasons, sourced claims and its vital absurdities.
Nearest city 🇧🇷 Arujá 36 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇷 Florianópolis 📖 489 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 — mild (15–26 °C mean) and not wet months.

City Rhythm

measured

Opening hours, by kind of place

median across mapped venues
Food & drink8,361 places mapped
11:00–23:00
0006121824
13%
open past midnight
74%
open on Sundays
70h
open per week
9%
take a midday break
10%
open 24/7
Shops & errands5,619 places mapped
07:00–22:00
0006121824
0%
open past midnight
82%
open on Sundays
96h
open per week
12%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
28
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
155
umbrella days a year
66.8 m
of rain since 1981
1,471
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2126.8 km
to Cordon de Puntas Negras
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:28
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.6 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
13,569
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSão Paulo RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 12.8% 172 of 1,878 🇱🇹 Klaipėda 12.8%🇲🇽 Mérida 12.8%🇺🇸 New Orleans 12.8%🇨🇦 Sarnia 12.8%São Paulo🇫🇷 Avignon 12.7%🇺🇸 Huntington 12.7%🇬🇪 Kutaisi 12.7%🇵🇹 Lagos 12.7%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 70 h 139 of 1,878 🇨🇦 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 70 h🇺🇸 San Luis Obispo 70 h🇸🇻 Santa Ana 70 h🇺🇸 Seattle 70 hSão Paulo🇨🇭 Thun 70 h🇳🇮 Tipitapa 70 h🇵🇱 Toruń 70 h🇹🇼 Toufen 70 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 10.8% 364 of 1,878 🇧🇴 Cochabamba 10.8%🇷🇺 Maykop 10.8%🇨🇭 Montreux 10.8%🇫🇷 Paris 10.8%São Paulo🇬🇧 Cambridge 10.7%🇫🇷 Chambéry 10.7%🇫🇷 Clermont-Ferrand 10.7%🇮🇪 Cork 10.7%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 8.9% 295 of 1,878 🇧🇷 Nova Lima 9%🇯🇵 Hachioji 8.9%🇲🇾 Miri 8.9%🇺🇾 Montevideo 8.9%São Paulo🇧🇷 Arujá 8.8%🇻🇳 Cần Thơ 8.8%🇬🇧 Inverness 8.8%🇮🇹 Lecce 8.8%
Never close at all% open 24/7 9.6% 135 of 1,878 🇬🇧 Middlesbrough 9.7%🇯🇵 Naha 9.7%🇨🇦 Toronto 9.7%🇦🇺 Adelaide 9.6%São Paulo🇺🇿 Tashkent 9.6%🇲🇾 Alor Setar 9.5%🇯🇵 Fuji 9.5%🇹🇿 Mwanza 9.5%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 82.4% 158 of 1,704 🇧🇷 Salvador 82.6%🇧🇹 Thimphu 82.6%🇵🇹 Funchal 82.5%🇳🇱 Heemskerk 82.4%São Paulo🇮🇹 Palermo 82.3%🇵🇹 Almada 82.2%🇮🇳 Kolkata 82.2%🇨🇴 Tunja 82.2%

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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