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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Bath?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Bath for

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Bath’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, Bath 10: Bath leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Bath 44: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala and Bath are level on 68.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Bath 30: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Bath 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Bath 80: Bath leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Bath 50: Bath leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Bath 72: Bath leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Bath 54: Bath leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Bath 27: Antigua Guatemala leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Bath 44: Bath leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Bath 78: Bath leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Bath.

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.

Bath
Best match
51match

Wins on wellness 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
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Bath in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBath

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.

Bath's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Bath 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). Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBath
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112 or 999
Elevation1,582 m132 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBath
City population59,09194,092
People per km²-3,245
Museums within 10 km217
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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.