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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Avignon?

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 Antigua Guatemala for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Avignon for

  • live music and the arts
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Avignon’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. Antigua Guatemala 6, Avignon 22: Avignon leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Avignon 57: Avignon leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Avignon 69: Avignon leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Avignon 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Avignon 70: Antigua Guatemala leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Avignon 92: Avignon leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Avignon 45: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Avignon 62: Avignon leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Avignon 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Avignon 44: Antigua Guatemala leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Avignon 68: Avignon leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Avignon 35: Antigua Guatemala leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Avignon.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on live music and the arts and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antigua Guatemala in July

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

Avignon in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
24 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaAvignon

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.

Avignon 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.

Avignon's sunshine is measured 65 km from the centre, at Marseille / Marignane.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antigua Guatemala: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Guatemala Aeropuertola Aurora (23.5 km from centre). Avignon: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Avignon / Morières-lès-Avignon (8.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaAvignon
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m10 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaAvignon
City population59,09192,188
People per km²-1,420
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.