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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Haedong Yonggungsa temple on the rocks by the sea, Busan
BusanHaedong Yonggungsa temple on the rocks by the sea

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Busan by Andrea De Santis, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Busan?

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

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Busan for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Busan’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, Busan 68: Busan leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Busan 72: Busan leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Busan 52: Antigua Guatemala leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Busan 60: Busan leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Busan 74: Antigua Guatemala leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Busan 74: Busan leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Busan 70: Busan leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Busan 68: Busan leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Busan 60: Busan leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Busan 56: Antigua Guatemala leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Busan 42: Busan leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Busan 78: Busan leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Busan.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Busan
Best match
65match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Busan in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
352 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Busan: 1991-2020 normals, Pusan (9.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBusan
Official languageSpanishKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Won (KRW)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation1,582 m30 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsGimhae International Airport (PUS)12 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaBusan
City population59,0913,453,198
People per km²-4,486
Museums within 10 km27
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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. 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.