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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Church of Saint Sava, Belgrade
BelgradeThe Church of Saint Sava

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Belgrade by Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Belgrade?

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
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

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

Choose Belgrade for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Belgrade’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, Belgrade 40: Belgrade leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Belgrade 60: Belgrade leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Belgrade 52: Antigua Guatemala leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Belgrade 80: Belgrade leads by 46 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Belgrade 50: Antigua Guatemala leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Belgrade 60: Belgrade leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Belgrade 45: Belgrade leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Belgrade 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Belgrade 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Belgrade 70: Belgrade leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Belgrade 55: Belgrade leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Belgrade 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 Belgrade.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Belgrade
Best match
53match

Wins on nightlife and beaches 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

Belgrade in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBelgrade

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). Belgrade: 1991-2020 normals, Beograd (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBelgrade
Official languageSpanishSerbian
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Serbian Dinar (RSD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 92/192, ambulance 94/194, fire 93/193
Elevation1,582 m117 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsBelgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG)12 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBelgrade
City population59,0911,197,714
People per km²-3,327
Museums within 10 km265
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.