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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
BerlinThe Brandenburg Gate

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Berlin by Claudia Solano, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Berlin?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Berlin for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Berlin’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, Berlin 38: Berlin leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Berlin 66: Berlin leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Berlin 86: Berlin leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Berlin 98: Berlin leads by 64 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Berlin 50: Antigua Guatemala leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Berlin 66: Berlin leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Berlin 76: Berlin leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Berlin 82: Berlin leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Berlin 68: Berlin leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Berlin 48: Antigua Guatemala leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Berlin 90: Berlin leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Berlin 55: Berlin 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 Berlin.

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 prices with your weighting.

Berlin
Best match
69match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Berlin in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
76 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBerlin

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). Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBerlin
Official languageSpanishGerman
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m34 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBerlin
City population59,0913,700,577
People per km²-4,153
Museums within 10 km2157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14

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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.