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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Belfast?

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
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Belfast for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Belfast’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, Belfast 20: Belfast leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Belfast 50: Belfast leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Belfast 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Belfast 50: Belfast leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Belfast 74: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Belfast 66: Belfast leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Belfast 58: Belfast leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Belfast 62: Belfast leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala and Belfast are level on 45.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Belfast 48: Antigua Guatemala leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Belfast 55: Belfast leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Belfast 25: Antigua Guatemala leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Belfast.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on live music and the arts and families 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

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBelfast

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). Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBelfast
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 m3 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBelfast
City population59,091345,006
People per km²-3,000
Museums within 10 km28
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.