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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Budapest by Perituss, CC0.

Antigua Guatemala or Budapest?

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 Budapest for

  • wellness
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Budapest’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, Budapest 25: Budapest leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Budapest 63: Budapest leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Budapest 80: Budapest leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Budapest 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Budapest 68: Budapest leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Budapest 62: Budapest leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Budapest 78: Budapest leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Budapest 55: Budapest leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Budapest 62: Antigua Guatemala leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Budapest 76: Budapest leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Budapest 98: Budapest leads by 56 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Budapest.

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.

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on wellness and live music and the arts 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

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBudapest

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). Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBudapest
Official languageSpanishHungarian
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Forint (HUF)
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 m117 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBudapest
City population59,0911,675,777
People per km²-3,191
Museums within 10 km281
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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. 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.