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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Rozenhoedkaai and the Belfry, Bruges
BrugesRozenhoedkaai and the Belfry

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Bruges by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Bruges?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Bruges for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Bruges’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, Bruges 28: Bruges leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Bruges 56: Bruges leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Bruges 75: Bruges leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Bruges 27: Antigua Guatemala leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Bruges 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Bruges 85: Bruges leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Bruges 54: Bruges leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Bruges 78: Bruges leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala and Bruges are level on 45.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Bruges 36: Antigua Guatemala leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Bruges 40: Bruges leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Bruges 40: Antigua Guatemala leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Bruges.

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.

Bruges
Best match
50match

Wins on day trips 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
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Bruges in July

21 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBruges

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.

Bruges 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.

Bruges's sunshine is measured 37 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

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). Bruges: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zeebrugge / Zeemanshaard (15.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBruges
Official languageSpanishFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112
Elevation1,582 m2 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBruges
City population59,091118,509
People per km²-840
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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. 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.