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
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The index

126 cities across the atlas, by region — or browse the full A–Z.

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North America & Caribbean18
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CEE & Balkans16
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TokyoOsakaFukuokaSeoulBusanTaipei
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🇧🇷 Brazil · metro 712k · 616 venues mapped

Sorocaba

Where Sorocaba 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 98 of 1,704.

Nearest city 🇧🇷 Jundiaí 68 km Nearest written profile 🇧🇷 São Paulo 📖 84 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 & drink616 places mapped
11:00–22:00
0006121824
10%
open past midnight
68%
open on Sundays
50h
open per week
7%
take a midday break
Shops & errands506 places mapped
07:30–21:00
0006121824
2%
open past midnight
90%
open on Sundays
92h
open per week
3%
open 24/7

Vital absurdities

measured
45
muggy days a year
0
nights/yr the bedroom never cools
153
umbrella days a year
61.3 m
of rain since 1981
2,309
days over 30 °C, of 16,630
0
volcanoes within 100 km
2043.8 km
to Cordon de Puntas Negras
0
quakes felt per decade (M4.5+, 100 km)
17:31
winter sunset (solar approx.)
13.6 h
longest day of the year
10
public holidays, 2024
13,599
km adrift · the Remote Index

The ranks

floor: 200 mapped venues
MeasureSorocaba RankNearest company
Kitchens open past midnight% of food & drink 10.3% 197 of 1,878 🇳🇱 Nijmegen 10.3%🇩🇿 Oran 10.3%🇺🇸 Racine 10.3%🇮🇹 Savona 10.3%Sorocaba🇸🇪 Uppsala 10.3%🇺🇸 Boise 10.2%🇺🇸 Detroit 10.2%🇳🇱 Groningen 10.2%
Hours open per weekmedian, food & drink 50 h 224 of 1,878 🇩🇪 Minden 50 h🇯🇵 Naha 50 h🇳🇱 Oss 50 h🇩🇪 Pforzheim 50 hSorocaba🇫🇷 Sète 50 h🇹🇼 Taichung 50 h🇧🇪 Verviers 50 h🇮🇹 Gallarate 49.9 h
Open before 8 a.m.% of food & drink 7.7% 395 of 1,878 🇮🇳 Kolkata 7.7%🇫🇷 Montauban 7.7%🇩🇪 Munich 7.7%🇫🇷 Saint-Malo 7.7%Sorocaba🇷🇺 Tambov 7.7%🇩🇪 Bamberg 7.6%🇷🇺 Krasnoyarsk 7.6%🇩🇪 Mannheim 7.6%
Vanish at lunch% taking a midday break 6.8% 316 of 1,878 🇺🇸 Honolulu 6.8%🇬🇧 Lancaster 6.8%🇩🇪 Lübeck 6.8%🇧🇷 Paranoá 6.8%Sorocaba🇯🇵 Akashi 6.7%🇨🇴 Bucaramanga 6.7%🇨🇺 Ciego de Ávila 6.7%🇨🇱 La Serena 6.7%
Never close at all% open 24/7 1.7% 214 of 1,878 🇫🇷 Lorient 1.7%🇨🇦 Nanaimo 1.7%🇵🇹 Porto 1.7%🇺🇸 Redlands 1.7%Sorocaba🇬🇧 Swindon 1.7%🇮🇱 Tel Aviv 1.7%🇸🇪 Uppsala 1.7%🇷🇺 Vladikavkaz 1.7%
Shops open on Sunday% of retail 89.9% 98 of 1,704 🇨🇾 Larnaca 90%🇺🇸 Spring Valley 90%🇺🇸 Texarkana 90%🇨🇺 Varadero 90%Sorocaba🇨🇺 Ciego de Ávila 89.7%🇯🇵 Echizen 89.7%🇦🇺 Geelong 89.7%🇺🇸 National City 89.7%

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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