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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Antigua Guatemala or Cardiff?

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
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Cardiff for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’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, Cardiff 30: Cardiff leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Cardiff 45: Antigua Guatemala leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Cardiff 58: Antigua Guatemala leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Cardiff 50: Cardiff leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Cardiff 70: Antigua Guatemala leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Cardiff 72: Cardiff leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Cardiff 58: Cardiff leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Cardiff 66: Cardiff leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Cardiff 50: Cardiff leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Cardiff 46: Antigua Guatemala leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Cardiff 57: Cardiff leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Cardiff 27: Antigua Guatemala leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Cardiff.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Cardiff
Best match
52match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaCardiff

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.

Cardiff 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.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

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). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaCardiff
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123112 or 999
Elevation1,582 m41 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaCardiff
City population59,091383,536
People per km²-2,734
Museums within 10 km29
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. 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.