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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Beijing?

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

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

Choose Beijing for

  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’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 and Beijing are level on 6.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Beijing 81: Beijing leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Beijing 93: Beijing leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Beijing 58: Beijing leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Beijing 60: Antigua Guatemala leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Beijing 85: Beijing leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Beijing 64: Beijing leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Beijing 69: Beijing leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Beijing 72: Beijing leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Beijing 68: Beijing leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Beijing 55: Beijing leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Beijing.

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 with your weighting.

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on live music and the arts 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
13 hdaylight a day

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBeijing

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). Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBeijing
Official languageSpanishPutonghua
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation1,582 m43 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBeijing
City population59,09121,893,095
People per km²-1,334
Museums within 10 km283
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. 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.