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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón

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

Antigua Guatemala or Buenos Aires?

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
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose Buenos Aires for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Buenos Aires’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, Buenos Aires 7: Buenos Aires leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Buenos Aires 71: Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Buenos Aires 95: Buenos Aires leads by 61 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Buenos Aires 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Buenos Aires 60: Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Buenos Aires 52: Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Buenos Aires 62: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Buenos Aires 60: Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Buenos Aires 55: Antigua Guatemala leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Buenos Aires 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 Buenos Aires.

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 wellness with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife 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
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaBuenos Aires

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). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBuenos Aires
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123117 or 911
Elevation1,582 m25 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBuenos Aires
City population59,0913,121,707
People per km²-15,355
Museums within 10 km276
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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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. 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.