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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Antigua Guatemala?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Adelaide for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Adelaide’s own page.

Choose Antigua Guatemala for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Antigua Guatemala’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Adelaide 68, Antigua Guatemala 6: Adelaide leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Antigua Guatemala 48: Adelaide leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Antigua Guatemala 68: Antigua Guatemala leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Antigua Guatemala 34: Adelaide leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Antigua Guatemala 78: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Antigua Guatemala 55: Adelaide leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Antigua Guatemala 38: Adelaide leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Antigua Guatemala 60: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Antigua Guatemala 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Antigua Guatemala 67: Antigua Guatemala leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Antigua Guatemala 22: Adelaide leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide and Antigua Guatemala are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Antigua Guatemala.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Adelaide
Best match
56match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Antigua Guatemala in July

25 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaideAntigua Guatemala

Where the figures come from

Antigua Guatemala has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Antigua Guatemala: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Guatemala Aeropuertola Aurora (23.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideAntigua Guatemala
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Quetzal (GTQ)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number000Police 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123
Elevation1 m1,582 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideAntigua Guatemala
City population1,387,29059,091
People per km²1,071-
Museums within 10 km132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.