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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Baku?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • day trips

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

Choose Baku for

  • beaches
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Baku’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, Baku 40: Baku leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Baku 60: Baku leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Baku 62: Antigua Guatemala leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Baku 42: Baku leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Baku 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Baku 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Baku 45: Baku leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Baku 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Baku 48: Baku leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Baku 64: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Baku 52: Baku leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Baku 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Baku.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Antigua Guatemala
47match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on beaches and live music and the arts 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 seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Baku in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBaku

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. Antigua Guatemala: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Guatemala Aeropuertola Aurora (23.5 km from centre). Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBaku
Official languageSpanishAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Azerbaijan Manat (AZN)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+4
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123102 or 112
Elevation1,582 m-28 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBaku
City population59,0912,300,500
People per km²-1,075
Museums within 10 km250
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.