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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Cannes?

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
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Cannes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Cannes’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, Cannes 80: Cannes leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Cannes 55: Cannes leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Cannes 38: Antigua Guatemala leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Cannes 42: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Cannes 72: Antigua Guatemala leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Cannes 86: Cannes leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Cannes 56: Cannes leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Cannes 68: Cannes leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Cannes 60: Cannes leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Cannes 22: Antigua Guatemala leads by 45 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Cannes 38: Cannes leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala and Cannes are level on 42.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Cannes.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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

Cannes in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaCannes

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). Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaCannes
Official languageSpanishFrench
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 m0 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaCannes
City population59,09174,350
People per km²-3,793
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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. 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.