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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Bangkok?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Bangkok for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Bangkok’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, Bangkok 12: Bangkok leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Bangkok 95: Bangkok leads by 47 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Bangkok 80: Bangkok leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Bangkok 85: Bangkok leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Bangkok 25: Antigua Guatemala leads by 53 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Bangkok 72: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Bangkok 50: Bangkok leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Bangkok 50: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Bangkok 80: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Bangkok 85: Bangkok leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Bangkok 52: Bangkok leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Bangkok 75: Bangkok leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Bangkok.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink 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
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBangkok
Official languageSpanishThai
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Baht (THB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation1,582 m2 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBangkok
City population59,0915,676,648
People per km²-3,619
Museums within 10 km259
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.