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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The island church from the lakeshore, Bled
BledThe island church from the lakeshore

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Bled by Philipp Schwarz, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Bled?

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

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • nightlife

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

Choose Bled for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Bled’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, Bled 50: Bled leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Bled 20: Antigua Guatemala leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Bled 22: Antigua Guatemala leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Bled 5: Antigua Guatemala leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Bled 86: Bled leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Bled 70: Bled leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Bled 60: Bled leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Bled 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Bled 5: Antigua Guatemala leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Bled 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Bled 5: Antigua Guatemala leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Bled 55: Bled 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 Bled.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
Best match
47match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Bled
40match

Wins on beaches 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
13 hdaylight a day

Bled in July

27 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
154 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBled

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.

Bled's temperatures are measured 36 km from the centre, at Klagenfurt.

Bled 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). Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBled
Official languageSpanishSlovene
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 m501 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre32 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBled
City population59,0914,969
People per km²-26
Museums within 10 km24
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13

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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.