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The Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua, Antigua Guatemala
Antigua GuatemalaThe Santa Catalina arch below Volcan de Agua
Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago
ChicagoCloud Gate in Millennium Park

Photos: Antigua Guatemala by Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Chicago by Jesus Toledo, Pexels License.

Antigua Guatemala or Chicago?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Chicago for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Chicago’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, Chicago 50: Chicago leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Antigua Guatemala 48, Chicago 80: Chicago leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Antigua Guatemala 68, Chicago 78: Chicago leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Antigua Guatemala 34, Chicago 77: Chicago leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antigua Guatemala 78, Chicago 48: Antigua Guatemala leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Antigua Guatemala 55, Chicago 42: Antigua Guatemala leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Antigua Guatemala 38, Chicago 78: Chicago leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Antigua Guatemala 60, Chicago 72: Chicago leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Antigua Guatemala 45, Chicago 70: Chicago leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Antigua Guatemala 67, Chicago 33: Antigua Guatemala leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antigua Guatemala 22, Chicago 82: Chicago leads by 60 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antigua Guatemala 42, Chicago 33: Antigua Guatemala leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antigua Guatemala and Chicago.

Your match

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

Antigua Guatemala
47match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Chicago
Best match
62match

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 seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Chicago in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Antigua GuatemalaChicago

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). Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaChicago
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyQuetzal (GTQ)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/120, ambulance 128, fire 123911
Elevation1,582 m179 m
Main airportLa Aurora International Airport (GUA)22 km from centre19 non-stop destinationsChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre274 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntigua GuatemalaChicago
City population59,0912,746,388
People per km²-4,529
Museums within 10 km244
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-1 month

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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.