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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Massachusetts State House, Boston
BostonThe Massachusetts State House

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Boston by Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Boston?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Boston for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Boston’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, Boston 35: Boston leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Boston 64: Boston leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Boston 72: Boston leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Boston 47: Boston leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Boston 60: Antigua Guatemala leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Boston 72: Boston leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Boston 72: Boston leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Boston 70: Boston leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Boston 55: Boston leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Boston 18: Antigua Guatemala leads by 49 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Boston 72: Boston leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Boston 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 Boston.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Boston
Best match
56match

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

Boston in July

28 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBoston

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). Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBoston
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123911
Elevation1,582 m43 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBoston
City population59,091675,647
People per km²-2,910
Museums within 10 km251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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.