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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Bogota?

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

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Bogota for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Bogota’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, Bogota 5: Antigua Guatemala leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Bogota 66: Bogota leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala and Bogota are level on 68.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Bogota 72: Bogota leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Bogota 64: Antigua Guatemala leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Bogota 52: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Bogota 45: Bogota leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Bogota 36: Antigua Guatemala leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Bogota 52: Bogota leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Bogota 77: Bogota leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Bogota 64: Bogota leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Bogota 28: Antigua Guatemala leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Bogota.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Bogota
Best match
52match

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

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBogota

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). Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBogota
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Colombian Peso (COP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123123
Elevation1,582 m2,582 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days19 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBogota
City population59,0918,034,649
People per km²-5,092
Museums within 10 km230
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. 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.